WordPress website blocked by robots.txt

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  mariemarkley · Member · Sep 28, 2022 at 5:51 am

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  Hii, I made a website on wordpress.com, when I submit it on the google search console it is showing the page is blocked by the robots.txt file, but no option is available in the WordPress dashboard to make it visible.
  I am using the free version of WordPress.
  Does WordPress made any changes for the free versions Or Am I missing something?

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

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  fstat · Staff · Sep 28, 2022 at 8:15 am

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  Hi,

  Your robots.txt file is fine, but I see you launched your site and made it public only a few hours ago. It will take several weeks for search engines to crawl and index your site, and until that happens, tools like Google Search Console might show your site as blocked from indexing instead.

  Make sure you regularly publish new content on your site and wait for search engines to complete the indexing process. You can learn more here:

  https://wordpress.com/en/support/seo/