Joomla and G News Crawl Problem

Discussion in 'Joomla' started by Beefandy, Oct 28, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi, I have www.jazzou.com which is built on Joomla, it has a news section, everything has been built to suit Google News. I already have a site which is a source of G News but when I submitted jazzou to G News I got this message:

    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.


    What I am unsure about is that I sent the news feed URL: http://jazzou.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=0&Itemid=40 but they are saying is that they cannot access: http://jazzou.com/index.php?option=com_content which I dont really need them to access but theres obviously a problem.

    In contrast my other Joomla site was fine when I submitted url: http://www.release-news.com/index.php/technology

    The only thing I can see is that jazzou has a longer url which if you break it down there is some restriction along the way

    Any help would be appreciated

    Thanks
     
    Beefandy, Oct 28, 2009 IP