Why are these results being showed as blocked by robots.txt?
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If you perform this search, you'll see all m. results are blocked by robots.txt: http://goo.gl/PRrlI, but when I reviewed the robots.txt file: http://goo.gl/Hly28, I didn't see anything specifying to block crawlers from these pages.
Any ideas why these are showing as blocked?
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Hi,
Your robots.txt file is very .. steroid healthy. It has his own universe
Are you 100% sure all of the entries are legit and clean ?
First thing I would do is to check Web M;aster Tools for the mobile subdomain. If you don't have it yet, that will be a good place to start - to verify the m subdomain.
Once in WeB Master Tools - you can debug this in no time.
Cheers.
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but, even when i search from my mobile device, I get the same results (that m. is blocked)
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I can't submit because I haven't claimed m. in GWT
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If you haven't already done so, I recommend testing your robots.txt file against one of your mobile pages (such as m.healthline.com/treatments) in Google Webmaster Tools. You can do this by logging into GWT, then click Health, then Blocked URLs.
If you have already tested it in GWT, can you let us know what the results said?
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Another good article from the community
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So after a little it or research as I never ever came past this before as all the site we do are responsive, I found this
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72462
It seems Google wont index a website that they think is a mobile website within the main serp, and vice verse ...
Hope that helps, cause it had me puzzled
Regards
John
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Which directory are you storing your mobile website files within ...
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Oh, sorry, on further investigation I see its just your mobile site that are being blocked ...
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