Indexed though blocked by robots.txt

Hello, 

It's been a while since I've been facing this issue and there seems to be no solution. I've submitted a sitemap of my website to Google Search Console which was successful, but every time I request Google to index my website, it always ends up with a warning "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt" meaning the site isn't indexed by Google. (My site is https://mastercarsreview.com/)

Did anyone face such problem? How did you fix it?

Thank you so much in advance. I really need help in this. (I've sent several emails to both squarespace and google, nothing changed)

Just leave them because that’s not going to hurt your site in any way. In this case, what new GSC is reporting is what’s happening with your site and giving you some information to improve your site. They are blocked by the robots.txt file and the Google bot respects robots.txt and does not crawl those pages but they will be indexed in a scenario when those URLs could be linked to from other pages on your site. In this situation Google will index if they are linked to from external url source as well. Better to click the "Fix Coverage issues".

Why doesn't Squarespace make sure those pages are not indexed? That would remove the error message.

What if it is a page you want indexed, as it is a sales page, and it is being blocked by /robots.txt:22 and not iindexed:

Sunshirts — Equestrian Sunshirts — Equestrian Lifestyle Clothing

How do you get rid of it?

sue bulman

42 minutes ago, EQLIFESUE said:

What if it is a page you want indexed, as it is a sales page

Hi Sue. I appreciate this can be confusing but it is working correctly. You don't want this link indexed.

This is because the link you've quoted (the one that ends with /sunshirts/sunshirts?tag=Sunshirt) is a link to the products tagged "Sunshirt" on the sunshirt page.

Squarespace asks Google not to crawl this URL because the same content will be indexed on the sunshirts page (but without the tag) at https://www.equestrianlifestyle.ca/sunshirts. If it were indexed a second time it would be considered duplicate content, and this doesn't help SEO.

I hope this makes sense.

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ok, that makes sense, i guess. All the other main product pages are indexed, so I was confused

Sue