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Moz crawler is not able to crawl my website
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Hi, i need help regarding Moz Can't Crawl Your Site i also share screenshot that Moz was unable to crawl your site on Mar 26, 2022. Our crawler was not able to access the robots.txt file on your site. This often occurs because of a server error from the robots.txt. Although this may have been caused by a temporary outage, we recommend making sure your robots.txt file is accessible and that your network and server are working correctly. Typically errors like this should be investigated and fixed by the site webmaster.
my robts.txt also ok i checked it
Here is my website https://whiskcreative.com.au
just check it please as soon as possibe -
@jasontorney Hi, I had the same problem after moving several of my websites to a Virtual Private Server that had enhanced security features.
One of these features was specifically to stop the Moz bot from crawling websites, and the hosting engineers advised they had done this because it was particularly aggressive in nature.
With my VPS control panel I have found the switch that allows me to disable bot blocking, and I occasionally do this if I'm grading a page with Moz, but advice from hosting support was to otherwise leave it active to protect the websites from attached (which means I don't get feedback from Moz crawls).
If you check with your hosting company you may find that they have a similar bot blocker configured for security purposes.
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