Google Site Preview - Something not quite right

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Jbone, Aug 10, 2011.

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  1. #1
    Hi All,

    when doing a search on Google.com for the keyword 'slots' the Google site preview for my website is not working correctly. I am getting the issue in the below screenshot:

    slots Capture.jpg

    the website its slots.com.

    Does anyone have any idea why the preview is like this and what I need to do to get this fixed.

    Appreciate any help that can be given.

    Thanks in advance
    Jbone
     
    Jbone, Aug 10, 2011 IP
  2. Zetiz

    Zetiz Active Member

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    I cannot find any problem in the preview. It is absolutely correct. Google is highlighting the part of the website where the word "slot" is written.

    It does the same with all the websites. :)
     
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  3. xtmx

    xtmx Active Member

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    It's an error in your robots.txt file. You can only disallow, not allow robots. :)
     
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  4. Jbone

    Jbone Greenhorn

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    #4
    Technically you can allow robots... Editing the robots.txt I am certain will not fix this problem.

    And although preview is showing a little bit of text it is not correct as it is not showing the whole website...
     
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  5. xtmx

    xtmx Active Member

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    #5
    I meant, try changing it to:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow:

    That is how you allow all robots.
     
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  6. Jbone

    Jbone Greenhorn

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  7. xtmx

    xtmx Active Member

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    I got the idea because w3 validator showed the following source code:


    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd">
    <!-- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> -->
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1">
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
    <TITLE></TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY><P></BODY>
    </HTML>
     
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  8. Jbone

    Jbone Greenhorn

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    I dont understand what this means?

    Please can you explain to me?
     
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  9. xtmx

    xtmx Active Member

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    It means that if W3 HTML Validator, a major web resource, is somehow blocked by your website that you set to allow all robots, maybe Google Instant Preview is being forced to show an old version as well.

    Maybe the Instant Preview robot doesn't support the "Allow" field like Google's main site does. After all, the http://www.robotstxt.org/ site doesn't even metion an "Allow:" field.
     
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  10. Kazarak

    Kazarak Peon

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    #10
    It doesn't show the whole site. It shows a select section (mainly top of site) and some quotes. I don't quite understand what you're having problems with though, but I wish you luck on figuring it out. :)
     
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  11. abrakatabra83

    abrakatabra83 Peon

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    it appears fine to me
     
    abrakatabra83, Aug 12, 2011 IP