Search Engines

[Telekinetic]

So being the stupid person I am, for no reason I typed mywebsiteurl into the google.com search bar, and I was the first result.
It said "oh no" under it my URL and under it "A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more"
Being even a more retard, I went to bing to do the same. It said this "We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us." How to fix this?

[Illori]

what is your robots.txt file? it should be in your main SMF folder.

[Kindred]

Didn't you just say in another thread that your site does not allow guests?

How would google actually catalog anything if you don't allow guests?

[Arantor]

Especially if you ban them...

[Telekinetic]

I don't know. I have Guest browsing forum disabled. I have never touched Robots.txt, and Google still goes past the login. I'm lost.

[Illori]

maybe if you actually provided us with the URL of your forum we can actually answer your questions and not guess as to the answer.

[Telekinetic]

maybe if you actually provided us with the URL of your forum we can actually answer your questions and not guess as to the answer.

http://dystopia.tk/

[qc]

I had a quick look at your site's HTML and HTTP headers, which are pretty standard. There is also no robots.txt available. Therefore google or bing should crawl your site - but since they don't, did you recently delete a robots.txt from your webroot?

Edit: Seems you had a robots.txt similar to this one http://www.dystopias.tk/robots.txt before you removed it (your www subdomain seems to redirect to advertising, probably a feature of your freehoster).

[Telekinetic]

I had a quick look at your site's HTML and HTTP headers, which are pretty standard. There is also no robots.txt available. Therefore google or bing should crawl your site - but since they don't, did you recently delete a robots.txt from your webroot?

Edit: Seems you had a robots.txt similar to this one http://www.dystopias.tk/robots.txt before you removed it (your www subdomain seems to redirect to advertising, probably a feature of your freehoster).

never deleted anything. I have no knowledge of how to employ the use of robots.txt, and uh how to allow description for my website when it is searched up. Help me, if you can.

[qc]

Then I am pretty sure the previous owner of dystopia.tk (at least since 2014) had a robots.txt in his web root blocking all search engines. You will now simply need to wait till Google & Co re-index your site. You might try to submit your website to e.g. Google for re-indexing.