All my snippets look like they are still in construction

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    pablolopesclimo · Member ·

    Hello everyone,

    I’m having an issue where Google search snippets for my website are still showing the “Coming Soon” / “Under Construction” message, even though the site has been live for some time.

    What I have tried so far to fix this:

    • I have manually requested re-indexing for my pages via Google Search Console multiple times.
    • I have cleared all site, server, and plugin caches (including LiteSpeed Cache).
    • I verified that the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” option in WordPress Settings > Reading is unchecked.

    The current discovery: While investigating my site files, I found a robots.txt file located inside the /litespeed/ folder with the following content:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    It seems this file is blocking Google from crawling the live content, causing it to keep the old “Coming Soon” snippets in the search results.

    My questions for the community:

    1. Since this file is located in the LiteSpeed directory and not the root, is this being generated by the LiteSpeed Cache plugin?
    2. What is the best way to permanently remove or update this file so it doesn’t interfere with Google’s crawler?
    3. Should I create a new robots.txt in the root directory to override this one?

    I would really appreciate your help to get my site indexed correctly. Thank you!

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    james3265166 · Member ·

    To fix the “Coming Soon” snippets for lopezlimousineservice.com, you must remove the Disallow: / directive from your robots.txt file, as this command specifically instructs Google to ignore your live content. While you found a file in the /litespeed/ folder, Google only obeys the robots.txt located in your root directory (e.g., public_html); if a physical file exists there or if WordPress is generating a “virtual” one due to a legacy setting, it will block the crawler. To resolve this, ensure Settings → Reading → Discourage search engines is unchecked in your dashboard, and then upload a physical robots.txt file to your root folder with Allow: / to override any plugin-level blocks. Once the file is updated, you must Purge All in the LiteSpeed Cache settings and request re-indexing in Google Search Console to force the search engine to replace the old “Under Construction” snippets with your actual site data.

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