Help regarding Robot.txt (google search)
Hi,
Recently I noticed that one of my blog is not being indexed by Google . And the reason I found was that robot.txt keeps the search engine from crawling my blog
This is the code
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User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://perpetualthinkings.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED
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Can anyone help me what to do next ? Is the sitemap with my feeds means all my feeds is being blocked ?
@harsh
Thank you ! But I think the problem is not with indexing. I did not find any crawl errors on my webmaster too and my specific url seems to be cached
It is with search result. Instead of showing my blog post title (with the respective page) , it shows my blog title ( my home page with description matching my search result ) and other linked in pages with my title (like the one I submitted the link for indiblogger, bloggers, etc) but not my original page
I tried changing the code in the <title> html but still i dont see any change
@Uma
Here are few things you could do for better indexing:
- Ping your blog manually using Pingler: https://pingler.com
- Comment on few active WordPress blog, as it will help search engine bots to follow link and crawl your blog.
- Follow a posting schedule, as this way search engine bots will fix a crawling rate for your blog
@Harsh-Nice to have you back here again.......
@ranjith @aditya - Haha not all the urls , I do find some still missing .I have to wait for a couple of days to see the changes though. And it seems google uses relevent urls from g+, digg and all that pings to consider the urls to be highlighted in search result, I am waiting for the actual outcome .
Yes finally found the problem - solved ! - after deleting and adding my blog again in webmaster :)
Happy to hear that......Happy blogging....
also i don't think disabling robot.txt file will work
just found out all web domain and sub domain has the same robot txt http://yoururl.blogspot.co.uk/robots.txt
so what might be the reason for google not indexing or even showing up my blog post?
Try one thing, sign in to your Webmaster tools account, click on your blog/site. Then click on "Health" (It will be on the left)....Check whaether there is any crawl error or not.....After that click on "Fetch as Google".....and Fetch your Home page, and all other linked page.....Sometimes it works....
I hope you haven't done anything silly with your search description tab under blogger settings.......Try to disable your robot.txt file and check the results.....resubmit your sitemap....let me know what happens
@ranjith
Thanks ! But why is my blog not indexed by search engine. I have created a sitemap also. One of my other blog is working quite well than this one. Any reasons as to why?
And even if I type the full title of my post along with my blog name, I find nothing in google search instead it shows the same title which I submitted as links to bloggers.com and indiblogger.com.
Your robots.txt is perfect. That is the default for all blogs and there is nothing that you need to change.
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google // for the user agent Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: // you are not blocking anything
User-agent: * // for user agents other than Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: /search // you are blocking search pages on your blog and they SHOULD be blocked
Allow: / // allow all other pages
Sitemap: http://perpetualthinkings.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED // you are simply stating the URL of your sitemap, you are not blocking anything
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