I'm getting a Crawl error 605 Page Banned by robots.txt, X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header, or Meta Robots Tag
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The website is www.bigbluem.com and is a wordpress site.
I'm getting the following error:
605 Page Banned by robots.txt, X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header, or Meta Robots Tag
But what is weird is the domain it lists below that is http://None/BigBlueM.com
Any advice?
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I can now resolve the www version of the site but not reach the root domain which will continue to return the 605 error so there is something about the root domain configuration that is blocking our bot. A workaround would be to create a new campaign for www.bigbluem.com instead of bigbluem.com
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Thanks David!
I noticed that this morning it was showing the correct domain all of a sudden. Thanks for looking into that further.
I've made that change to the robots.txt file so go ahead and test when you can.
Thanks again!
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Hello!
Sorry for the confusion. For your site there were two issues, one on our side with our crawler failing between August 21st - 29th crawls trying to reach http://None/yourdomain.com and the site not responding to robots.txt
The crawl issue has been resolved but for some reason your site is still blocking our user-agent.
Rogerbot can't follow allow directives well so you could try updating it with Disallow:
User-agent: Rogerbot
Disallow:Let me know if this helps! Once you make the change I can run a quick test to see if it will resolve.
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Thanks!
I've made that change, although I still don't know why it would have the URL as http://None/BigBlueM.comThat's concerning and makes me think that it isn't crawling because it's trying to crawl that URL which doesn't exist.
Do you know if I have to wait another week for Moz to attempt a crawl or can I force that to see if it's working?
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Thanks for piping in here! I will definitely rely more heavily on GWMT and will check out Screaming Frog SEO spider. Thanks!
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I've consistently experienced problems with the Moz crawler - to the point of I no longer put much value into it.
I'm getting this error and nothing has changed in my robots.txt.
Instead, use GWMT and Screaming Frog SEO spider - that's all you need and does more than the Moz crawler.
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I have noticed underneath rogerbot you have dissallow change it to
User-agent: rogerbot
Allow: /
Then let me know how you get on crawling the home page.
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No problem, I will have a look into that issue for you now it does seem strange.
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Hey! Thanks for the response.
I didn't have Disallow set up for the root folder at all, just for /wp-admin/.
I went ahead and added the User-agent: rogerbot
The one thing I am still concerned about is that Moz is saying "We were unable to access your homepage" and then has the URL http://None/BigBlueM.com
Why does it think that is my homepage? That seems weird and it isn't that way on any of my other sites that are set up in Moz.
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In order to allow crawlers to to access the site, you would need to either remove the / after Disallow or change Disallow to Allow.
If you specifically want to allow the Moz crawler, you can insert the following directive above the current directive that is in the .htaccess
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: -
If you happen to figure out a solution before someone posts here, let me know what it is!
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I am having the exact same problem, however Google webmaster tools is able to crawl the site just fine.
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