Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Why might GoogleBot get errors when trying to access my robots.txt file?.

Why might GoogleBot get errors when trying to access my robots.txt file?.

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Why might GoogleBot get errors when trying to access my robots.txt file?.

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 11:27 AM PST



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A great thing about Google is, it gives webmasters all the help they need to get their websites into Google's index. There's a nice tool available in Google Webmaster Tools called 'Fetch as GoogleBot'. This tool, as we discussed in our SEO Tips for start-ups, can be a great help diagnosing errors and getting a website in Google's index faster. A robots.txt file is used for crawling efficiency, and preventing certain pages from being crawled etc. Sometimes though, GoogleBot might have difficulty fetching your robots.txt file. Here's a solution from Google to this problem.
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