Modify Robots.txt

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  dragondagua · Member · Mar 22, 2015 at 7:57 pm

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  Hi, everyone!

  Is it posible to modify Robots.txt in the wordpress.com platform. That is, the free services provided by WordPress.

  Thanks

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

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 23, 2015 at 7:57 am

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  Hi there. We don’t have any FTP access, so can’t edit any of your site’s files. http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/

  What exactly is the problem? Did you get an error message in Webmaster Tools? Looking at other threads on this topic it seems a temporary error is normal after changing a site from private to public. See https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=robots.txt

  If that’s not the case here, please provide more information on the exact error you’re seeing.

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  dragondagua · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 9:11 am

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  Thank you for your response.

  The thing is tha I have just created a new blog, outside, the free wordpress platform. I have exported/imported all the articles and I do not want to be penalized by Google because of double content.
  As they stated in their recomendations, it is better to include in the robots.txt rel=”canonical” than disabled the scan of all robots.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 9:17 am

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  You can include that on your NEW site, but not on a WordPress.com site.

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  dragondagua · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 1:34 pm

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  Ok. The interesting thing for me would be to include it on wp.com to presente my new site as original.