Google webmaster tools robots txt timeout

The robots. If you're unsure about how to access your website root, or need permissions to do so, contact your web hosting service provider. If you can't access your website root, use an alternative blocking method such as meta tags.

Google may ignore characters that are not part of the UTF-8 range, potentially rendering robots. Each group consists of multiple rules or directives instructions , one directive per line. Each group begins with a User-agent line that specifies the target of the groups.

A group gives the following information: Who the group applies to the user agent. Which directories or files that agent can access. Which directories or files that agent cannot access. Crawlers process groups from top to bottom. A user agent can match only one rule set, which is the first, most specific group that matches a given user agent.

The default assumption is that a user agent can crawl any page or directory not blocked by a disallow rule. Rules are case-sensitive. The character marks the beginning of a comment. Google's crawlers support the following directives in robots. This is the first line for any rule group. Google user agent names are listed in the Google list of user agents.

If the rule refers to a page, it must be the full page name as shown in the browser. This is used to override a disallow directive to allow crawling of a subdirectory or page in a disallowed directory.

For a single page, specify the full page name as shown in the browser. Sitemaps are a good way to indicate which content Google should crawl, as opposed to which content it can or cannot crawl. Learn more about sitemaps. Lines that don't match any of these directives are ignored. Test robots. Google offers two options for testing robots.

You can only use this tool for robots. If you're a developer, check out and build Google's open source robots. You can use this tool to test robots. Submit robots. Useful robots. Only googlebot-news may crawl the whole site. Unnecessarybot may not crawl the site, all other bots may. For example, disallow the dogs. Google can't index images and videos without crawling them.

For example, disallow for crawling all. Your site's overall robots. HappyCat, more help please with the last part of your comment, how do I do the redirect? What is it good for? My only access is through cpanel so I think all I have is the. As for the DNS problems, I can't add much more value to solving your problem then what others above have suggested. However I would suggest that you discuss the issues with your webhost.

To me I would assume if Google is having problems with your DNS servers something is going on with your hosts domain name servers. Well, friends this question has already been marked as solved so I don't think that there is any need for further comments.

It may have been marked solved, but in thir last post the OP stated "more help please" which suggests that there is, indeed, a need for further comments I was able to read about this and implement.

Now it works and I hope for the best. We're a friendly, industry-focused community of developers, IT pros, digital marketers, and technology enthusiasts meeting, learning, and sharing knowledge.

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Edited 7 Years Ago by savedlema because: added the "fetch as Google" result. Answered by almostbob in a post from 7 Years Ago. Answered by HappyCat 15 in a post from 7 Years Ago. Your site now shows in Google. Answered by Kelly Burby 44 in a post from 7 Years Ago. Jump to Post. I asked him who did the file he doesn't have a clue and said he didn't do it it looks like a custom file but I am not sure if wordpress comes with this file already for install with the purchase of the blog. Doesn't do it in firefox only windows and he said I am the only one that ever said that.

I wonder if it is because I have more enabled in my google tool bar than the normal person does and the Google bar searches out the robots text file when I visit a site. I am just wondering here as I was reading this thread and figured I could ask the question since he has found his issue. I have never run across this before and am really puzzled by this. Become a Pro Member. Toggle navigation. This page requires javascript to function properly. It seems that your browser does not have Javascript enabled.

Forum Moderators: goodroi. Msg Junior Member joined:Jan 30, posts: votes: 0. Finally I have made it to this forum, and hope that I can get a solution to my problem. Senior Member from MY joined:Apr 1, posts votes: 0. Administrator joined:Aug 10, posts votes: Thanks for the responses. Junior Member joined:Jan 30, posts votes: 0. I have a rewrite rule for my Wordpress blog permalinks set up in my. The site is hosted on Red Hat, as far as I know. I have changed the name of the blog htaccess now so that it is not valid.

The problem is still not solved, and I have asked my host repeatedly if it is an IP block. They seem adamant that nothing is blocked, but I'm not so sure.