I cannot remove the robots.txt file on my website – how can I do this?

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  hughcrosfield · Member · Jan 24, 2013 at 8:03 pm

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  The robots.txt appeared without me stting it up and I cannot remove it. It has disabled links to various google searches and my traffic is reduced by 1000%.

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

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2013 at 8:40 pm

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  hughcrosfield.wordpress.com. – from Is My Blog Working – shows – you can’t remove the robots.txt file at WordPress.COM

  Your robots.txt file is valid and allows search engines to index your content.
  Your blog is indexed by Google (318 results).

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  hughcrosfield · Member · Jan 24, 2013 at 8:48 pm

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  Thanks auxclass. I’m fairly new to blogging with wordpress.

  Internet searches that used to provide links to my blog no longer list me at all. For example anti-apartheid geographies would have the blog third and fourth on the first page. Do that search now and the site doesnt come up at all. All the links other than through the blog name disappeared from 3rd/4th Jan this year – since then my traffic has been down tenfold. I wondered if this robots.txt file was the culprit?

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2013 at 9:05 pm

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  it’s not your robots file

  See tips here on how to blog better: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/

  100 tags on one of your Posts is not helping – 10 to 12 max categories & tags combined

  Your blog does not have a lot of fresh content – that can hurt

  Google changes the search algorithms on a regular basis – they had some sort of a change last year and my traffic went up a bunch even on older Posts – so changes work both ways

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Jan 24, 2013 at 9:11 pm

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  100 tags?

  I try to stick to 5 or 6 specifically on topic; more as keywords or categories I guess.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2013 at 9:13 pm

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  PS – use the “More Tag” to make your front page easier to navigate and less confusing

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  hughcrosfield · Member · Jan 24, 2013 at 9:14 pm

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  Thanks – I will remove those tags. Schoolboy error. Need to work out how to do different pages on Bueno rather than have it all on one page.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2013 at 9:18 pm

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  See below for more help:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  hughcrosfield · Member · Jan 25, 2013 at 12:06 am

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  Thanks auxclass – that helped. Now how to get back up the google rankings on key search terms?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 25, 2013 at 12:08 am

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