Dear members, I am getting message "Restricted by robots.txt" when i visited to check the information about my blog from google webmaster tools at crowler error section and the number of restricted URL are increasing day by day. Will it affects my search engine ranking? What i have to do to solve this issue? Why this is happens? Please give some solution/answer if any one know about this type of issue. Thanks Prasanna
It depends on the content of the robots.txt file i.e. which URLs it blocks. How does your robots.txt file is looking?
Make sure you have not made mistake creating robots.txt file. If you are not sure you may remove the contents from robots.txt (if you have blogspot, you can not edit robots.txt and you do not need to worry about it). URLs mention in robots.txt will be de-indexed from search engines. Kailash