Question Google bot

Well, things haven't gone as I expected.  When I started, google was not indexing my site and Bing was. I fiddled around on the google console and Bing workbench, refined my robots.txt file and resubmitted my sitemap.xml file and gave google another shotl.  Now, google search works, yea, but Bing doesn't --ugh.

You opened this bug report some weeks ago. If that issue is resolved or explained, could you please click on the "close" button?

I do not agree with your alternative robots.txt, specifically this might put off Bing:

Bing might interpret that as "all user agents (including me) may not access anything"

Advice: revert to the robots.txt generated by webtrees and try again. I personally have no indication it is faulty.

My understanding is that the two Allow statements let Googlebot and Bingbot to index the site. Is my understand wrong?
User-agent: GooglebotAllow: /User-agent: BingbotAllow: /User-agent: DuckDuckBotAllow: /User-agent: *Disallow: /


 

My understanding is that parsing of robots.txt does not need to stop once a matching rule for a user agent string is found. A set of conflicting rules like yours can be interpreted in a number of ways, and that is exactly what you have observed.

Aside of that, you should not allow all urls to be fetched by these three crawlers. They can know in advance that charts, reports etc are off limits.

Again, I have not seen any evidence that the robots.txt file as generated by webtrees is/was stopping google or bing.
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