Sitemap/robots.txt oddity??

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Sitemap/robots.txt oddity??

Postby chez » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:30 am

I have submitted my sitemap to Google (http://www.ohlookaforum.com/sitemapindex.xml), but am getting the following -

sitemap1.jpg


When viewing details of the link with errors (http://www.ohlookaforum.com/forum-sitemap.xml), I get this -

sitemap2.jpg


My robots.txt (http://www.ohlookaforum.com/robots.txt) isn't stopping anything, as I am waiting for another month or so for things to be re-indexed after I applied the URL Rewrite mod.

This is confirmed by viewing the 'Crawler Access' page of Webmaster Tools

Also, testing the URL that Google says is blocked using their robots.txt tool, I get this -

sitemap4.jpg
sitemap4.jpg (10.73 KiB) Viewed 272 times


I have tried resubmitting the sitemap a few times and get the same error each time,

Does anyone have any idea what could be happening?

Thanks
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Re: Sitemap/robots.txt oddity??

Postby dcz » Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:36 am

Interesting. I guess that google is having some trouble itself on this one, even though, I would not use a robots.txt to allow anything, since robots.txt where meant to disallow in the first place, you may just be facing this google edge case for this reason. Try to just delete it.
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