The domain was just created. Could this be a DNS propagation issue, or is something preventing Google’s inspection tool from accessing the site? Please advise how to diagnose it.
Thank you.
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The domain is new. The website, robots.txt and sitemap.php open in my browser, but Google Search Console cannot fetch them. Ownership verification using an HTML file succeeded.
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It isn’t DNS propagation. The site resolves and opens in your browser, so DNS is working.
Free hosting puts a browser check on every URL, including robots.txt and sitemap files. A tool that can’t run JavaScript and keep cookies gets a short HTML page instead of the file. The article on this security system lists Search Console’s live test as one of the tools that gets blocked. It also says the Google crawler itself is exempt:
A staff answer in an earlier topic said the same about Search Console’s validation tools. They may not be on the exception list, so they can get blocked even though the real crawler isn’t. In that case the site was already indexed, and staff said the message could be ignored:
So I think your “robots.txt could not be fetched” result is most likely the same thing. I can’t confirm it from here, though. To tell the two apart, search site:elyartfacilities.free.nf on Google once the site has had a few days to be crawled. If your pages show up, the crawler is getting through. If they still don’t show up after a while, post that here.