Google News Crawl Problem...

Discussion in 'SEO' started by Beefandy, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi, I submitted my site: www.jazzou.com to be reviewed by Google News. I already have a website listed with them so everything is made to fit the requirements however I have got this message back:

    'Thank you for your note. In order to for us to evaluate your site articles
    we need to be able to access the content on your site. Currently, crawlers
    cannot fill out registration forms, nor do they support cookies. Given
    that, in order to successfully crawl your site, we need to be able to
    circumvent your registration page. When we tried to access
    http://jazzou.com/index.php?option=com_content we got the following
    message:
    "You are not authorised to view this resource. You need to login"

    The easiest way to do this is to configure your webservers to not serve
    the registration when our crawlers visit your pages (when the User-Agent
    is "Googlebot"). You can verify that the request is actually from our
    robot by making sure the IP address is within the range of 66.249.64.0/20.
    It is equally important that your robots.txt file allows access by
    Googlebot.'

    The thing is I sent this url which is not restricted: http://jazzou.com/index.php?option=c...id=0&Itemid=40

    I'm a bit baffled, any help would be appreciated

    Thanks
     
    Beefandy, Oct 27, 2009 IP