Hello, I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues with your robots.txt file. If you’ve removed the robots.txt file and it’s still blocking your website, there might be a cached version of the file that is causing the issue.
To ensure that you’re viewing the latest version of your robots.txt file, you can confirm that the current date and time are displayed in the “Latest version seen on” field in the Robots Testing Tool. If the current date and time are not displayed, click “See live robots.txt” to view the latest version.
If you’re still facing issues after confirming that the robots.txt file has been removed, please let us know, and we’ll be happy to assist you further.
Sources:
Common robots.txt Issues & How to Fix Them » Rank Math
How to Fix ‘Blocked by robots.txt’ Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
