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kindly please confirm how could i submit a robots.txt using Weebly. Thanks!

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Answering : the simplest first step is to check what your Weebly site already serves at the root by visiting https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt. If that file exists and you do not see an obvious place in the editor to upload a file at the domain root, the typical workaround on Weebly is to control indexing with per-page SEO settings or by inserting meta robots tags into the page/site header. That also explains ’s point about template limits and ’s feeling that advanced control can be missing on hosted builders. and : Weebly is a hosted drag-and-drop site builder, so some server-level files are managed by the platform.

Practical steps you can apply now:

  • Visit Pages in the Weebly editor, pick the page, open SEO settings and either use the built-in “Hide from search engines” toggle or paste a meta robots tag into the page Header Code.
  • For sitewide tags use Settings -> SEO -> Header Code.
  • Submit the Weebly sitemap (usually at /sitemap.xml) to Google Search Console for faster updates.
  • For urgent removals use Search Console’s URL removal tool.

Example meta tag to add to a page header:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

Note: robots.txt tells crawlers what to crawl; if a URL is blocked there, search engines may not read its meta tags. If you need guaranteed root-level control over a custom robots.txt, move to hosting that lets you upload files at the domain root or use a server/proxy solution.

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I have no clue what Weebly is, sorry??

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Oh, what's Weebly?

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On weebly, I think you are only limited the pre-created templates

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i have visited weebly but couldnt found it that helpful... so cant refer it

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