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Really hoping that someone who can help will see this. The number of 'indexed but blocked by robots.txt' pages has increased to 270,000. Squarespace have said that there is nothing they can do, that this isn't a security problem because the site is secure, we're just getting attacked by site search spam bots. I am at a complete loss as to what to do and desperately need some advice.

Update: There are now more than 175,000 of these 'indexed but blocked by robots.txt' pages in my search console and I am becoming increasingly concerned. If anybody has any suggestions or advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

Hi Bias - I'm currently experiencing exactly the same issue. Did you ever find a fix?

Thanks for getting back to me! I've attached a screenshot with some examples. Like I said, there are tens of thousands of these indexed (but blocked by robots.txt) and hundreds of thousands not indexed - it's the indexed ones I'm really worried about. My url is www.alongdustyroads.com

Google search console is showing hundreds of thousands of pages of site search spam. Most of these are non-indexed but more than 55,000 are 'indexed but blocked by robots.txt'. The links have clearly all been created by adding queries to our search bar, and are providing links to gambling websites. Our traffic has been decreasing over the last couple of weeks and I am concerned that it is related to this. I have only just noticed this in search console but this has been ongoing for the last couple of months. Having done lots of research this evening, most of the suggestions to fix the problem can only be achieved by having a Wordpress site but as we have no access to robots.txt file or telling Google not to index certain pages, I am at a complete loss as to what to do and am desperately hoping that someone may be able to help. We have removed the search bar off our site this evening in the hopes of preventing any more links being created, but as a very large travel blog, this is far from ideal.