Google Webmaster Tools is saying "Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt" after Https move...
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Hi Everyone,
I really don't see anything wrong with our robots.txt file after our https move that just happened, but Google says all URLs are blocked. The only change I know we need to make is changing the sitemap url to https. Anything you all see wrong with this robots.txt file?
robots.txt
This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
you save bandwidth and server resources.
This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
Used: http://example.com/robots.txt
Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
For syntax checking, see:
http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html
Website Sitemap
Sitemap: http://www.bestpricenutrition.com/sitemap.xml
Crawlers Setup
User-agent: *
Allowable Index
Allow: /*?p=
Allow: /index.php/blog/
Allow: /catalog/seo_sitemap/category/Directories
Disallow: /404/
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /downloader/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /magento/
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /report/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /var/Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /control/
Disallow: /contacts/
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customize/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /poll/
Disallow: /review/
Disallow: /sendfriend/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /wishlist/
Disallow: /aitmanufacturers/index/view/
Disallow: /blog/tag/
Disallow: /advancedreviews/abuse/reportajax/
Disallow: /advancedreviews/ajaxproduct/
Disallow: /advancedreviews/proscons/checkbyproscons/
Disallow: /catalog/product/gallery/
Disallow: /productquestions/index/ajaxform/Files
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /cron.sh
Disallow: /error_log
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /LICENSE.html
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt
Disallow: /STATUS.txtPaths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /.php$
Disallow: /?SID=
disallow: /?cat=
disallow: /?price=
disallow: /?flavor=
disallow: /?dir=
disallow: /?mode=
disallow: /?list=
disallow: /?limit=5
disallow: /?limit=10
disallow: /?limit=15
disallow: /?limit=20
disallow: /*?limit=25 -
Thanks again for the response. Looks like it just took a little more time for Google to resolve the issue. No more errors. Didn't do anything but resubmit Sitemap and Robots.txt.
Thanks for the tips as well. I am going to post one more question in another thread.
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Jeff,
I was only able to find only ONE URL in the sitemap that is blocked by the robots.txt that you've posted in this question.
Check the image attached.
The URL is: https://www.bestpricenutrition.com/catalog/product/view/id/15650.htmlWhat did I do? A manual search of all the disallowed terms in the sitemap.
Also, you might want to take a comprehensive read at this article about robots.txt. It helped me to find that mistake.
The complete guide to Robots.txt - Portent.comBest Luck.
GR. -
Thanks for the quick response.
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Yes...Google Webmaster Tools is giving examples...and they are basically all the product pages.
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Did the Add Site under Google Webmaster Tools yes...this is from that new 'account'.
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Yes...we are fixing that.
You see anything in that robots.text above that would indicate we are blocking https product pages?
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Hello Jeff,
Just some routine questions to establish a base line:
- Have you checked that the sitemap doesnt include any of the disallowed URLs?
- You said that there was a movement to HTTPS, have you created a new account for the new domain?
- Im seing that the robots.txt has the old URL for the sitemap, without the HTTPS correction.
Let me know.
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