New google mobile-algorithm
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Google is changing his search algorithm on 21. April. Not mobile friendly sites will experience a loss in search rank. If you try to run this test from google on your c5 website, it will fail, altough you got a mobile friendly site:https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/....
This is a huge problem!
The problem is the c5 generated robots.txt file. There is a disallow for the /themes folder. If you got your css files in there, the algorithm fails! So remove this in your robots.txt file:
(Disallow: /application/themes).
Can anyone tell me how to adress this issue on github? Cannot find the file where the robots.txt is generated. Thank you
This is a huge problem!
The problem is the c5 generated robots.txt file. There is a disallow for the /themes folder. If you got your css files in there, the algorithm fails! So remove this in your robots.txt file:
(Disallow: /application/themes).
Can anyone tell me how to adress this issue on github? Cannot find the file where the robots.txt is generated. Thank you
Yeah I have done this already. In 5.7 there is no robots.txt file on github. Is it generated elsewhere?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/concrete5/concrete5-5.7.0/develop/web/robots.txt
Hell! Did not saw this yesterday. Thanks man
I tried this on a 5.6.3.2 site and ran the test... still got the dreaded 'your S#it don't fly' from google. I even tried uploading a blank robots.txt and that didn't resolve the issue. Any ideas? Could it be a caching thing? Do i need to reindex with google?
Is google still complaining about your robots.txt?
It´s most likely not a caching problem.
It´s most likely not a caching problem.
Just replace it with the latest version from github:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/concrete5/concrete5/master/web/rob...
I've done this on quite a few sites already and it solves the issue of Google not being able to access the resources it needs to evaluate it to be 'mobile friendly'.