Having Issues, Google is blocked by my site.

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by charlietree, Dec 14, 2009.

  1. #1
    My site, fakekiwi.com apparently is blocking everything on google and I was wondering what was going on...so I searched the internet and found a thread on here actually...well I did what that dude did but I am still having the problems.

    This is what Webmaster Tools is telling me:

    "URL restricted by robots.txt
    We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit."

    fakekiwi.com/sitemap.xml works when i go to it...so im confused.
     
    charlietree, Dec 14, 2009 IP
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  3. charlietree

    charlietree Active Member

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    Where is robots.txt? should I create one or is there one already?
     
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    It's in your root - you already have one and the disallow is what is causing you problems.
     
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    I am just not seeing the robots.txt...could it be hidden? Fakekiwi.com is where I am lookign for it...so I am looking in the root folder of that website. I have several websites hosted on one server
     
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    I don't know how you are looking at your directory, but it might be hidden depending on your host or ftp program. It's located where your sitemap is.

    You can see it here:

    Fakekiwi.com/robots.txt
     
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    I have tried to see Hidden files...whenever I connect via windows explorer it shuts windows explorer down...so I use FLASHFXP and put that I would like to see hidden files...and its still not there...What do you think? Should I create one and just rewrite it?
     
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    If you have cpanel, just use file manager to view the files. Overwriting the existing robots.txt file is fine.
     
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    I guess what I will do is just overwrite the previous file or something...what should it look like?

    User-agent: *

    Thats it?
     
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    Use control panel 11 or something like it, turn on show hidden files and edit your robot.txt
     
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    User-agent: *

    Sitemap: http://fakekiwi.com/sitemap.xml.gz
     
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    I clicked show hidden files...I promise...its not showing up
     
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    yeah
    "You can see it here:

    Fakekiwi.com/robots.txt ".

    you would open google webmaster tool, there is a setting for this.
     
    mmfashion, Dec 15, 2009 IP