Webmaster Tools Seeing A different sitemap to the one I have

SaSeoPete · 10-22-2009, 06:10 AM

Hi all,

I was wondering if this has happened to someone before...

I am trying to submit my sitemap to Webmastertools it says it cant crawl my site because it is restricted by my robots.txt.

My websites robots is:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

And google is telling me it's

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Pretty frustrating.

Its a wordpress site, I have checked the privacy setting under Settings and its fine

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers,

Pete

KirkMcD · 10-22-2009, 10:08 AM

If that is the whole thing, just delete the file, otherwise recreate it.

Oscar D · 10-22-2009, 12:39 PM

I also had a problem like this once, dam it was fustrating

Try what has been suggested, creating a new site map might be the answer. Also check in the domains root file on your hosting account and see if there is a robots.txt file there - if there is then delete it.

Hope that helps you

10-22-2009, 06:10 AM	#1
SaSeoPete Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cape Town & Sydney Posts: 649 Thanks: 219 Thanked 76 Times in 58 Posts Contact Info	Webmaster Tools Seeing A different sitemap to the one I have Hi all, I was wondering if this has happened to someone before... I am trying to submit my sitemap to Webmastertools it says it cant crawl my site because it is restricted by my robots.txt. My websites robots is: User-agent: * Disallow: And google is telling me it's User-agent: * Disallow: / Pretty frustrating. Its a wordpress site, I have checked the privacy setting under Settings and its fine Does anyone have any ideas? Cheers, Pete

10-22-2009, 10:08 AM	#2
KirkMcD Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: , , USA. Posts: 2,433 Thanks: 40 Thanked 155 Times in 148 Posts	Re: Webmaster Tools Seeing A different sitemap to the one I have If that is the whole thing, just delete the file, otherwise recreate it.

10-22-2009, 12:39 PM	#3
Oscar D Captain War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,029 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 86 Thanked 48 Times in 46 Posts	Re: Webmaster Tools Seeing A different sitemap to the one I have I also had a problem like this once, dam it was fustrating Try what has been suggested, creating a new site map might be the answer. Also check in the domains root file on your hosting account and see if there is a robots.txt file there - if there is then delete it. Hope that helps you
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