--- title: "robots.txt disallows the site for * / Googlebot / Bingbot (seo/robots-blocks-all)" description: "seo/robots-blocks-all: Disallow: / blocks crawling entirely, which removes the site from Google, from Bing (and so Copilot and ChatGPT's search partner), and…" canonical: https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/robots-blocks-all lastModified: 2026-09-16 --- # robots.txt disallows the site for * / Googlebot / Bingbot `seo/robots-blocks-all` · severity **error** · category SEO · detected by `void seo` and `void audit` ## Why it matters Disallow: / blocks crawling entirely, which removes the site from Google, from Bing (and so Copilot and ChatGPT's search partner), and from AI answers. Usually a preview config leaking to production. This is a scoring gate. ## How to fix it Only return Disallow: / on non-production deployments (check VERCEL_ENV). ## References - https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/robots-txt/robots-txt-spec - https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/metadata/robots ## More seo rules `void seo` reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in , self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates. - `theme-color` No theme-color meta — [seo/theme-color](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/theme-color) - `robots-txt-unreachable` robots.txt returns 5xx/429 or times out — [seo/robots-txt-unreachable](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/robots-txt-unreachable) - `robots-txt-missing` No robots.txt — [seo/robots-txt-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/robots-txt-missing) - `robots-txt-invalid` robots.txt serves HTML, exceeds 500 KiB, or has unparseable lines — [seo/robots-txt-invalid](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/robots-txt-invalid) - `robots-blocks-resources` robots.txt blocks JS/CSS needed to render — [seo/robots-blocks-resources](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/robots-blocks-resources) - `robots-sitemap-directive` robots.txt has no absolute Sitemap: line — [seo/robots-sitemap-directive](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/robots-sitemap-directive) - `sitemap-missing` No reachable sitemap — [seo/sitemap-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/sitemap-missing) - `sitemap-invalid` Sitemap isn't valid sitemap XML or exceeds protocol limits — [seo/sitemap-invalid](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/sitemap-invalid) Detected by `void seo` and `void audit`. Explain it in a terminal: `void rules seo/robots-blocks-all`