Robots.txt
Posted 13th September 2010 at 08:12 AM by deloriagod
I use HostGator for all of my hosting and I noticed they had a thing to try out Attracta for free so I decided to give it a shot. To put it lightly, I will never use Attracta again and I would never consider paying for their services.
The immediately messed up my robots.txt file and I went from ranking #6 for my main keyword (on Internet Marketing For Newbies) to ranking in the 50's. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why this had suddenly happened and after a few weeks I couldn't figure out why I wasn't recovering even after I continued to work on the site like I had been before.
After a while I noticed SeoQuake was showing "no" for robots.txt and I took a look at it. It pointed to Attractas site where it claimed my robots.txt was located but actually just showed a file that claimed my original file was an unreadable XML file.
I deleted all of my sites from Attracta after that. I went through and rebuilt my robots.txt file by hand then copy and pasted it through the other sites I'd added to Attracta.
It's been 2 days since I fixed my robots.txt file and I've jumped from roughly #52 to #34 and I expect it to continue its way back to page 1.
My real point here is, don't forget to add your robots.txt file. Without mine, my site bombed.
The immediately messed up my robots.txt file and I went from ranking #6 for my main keyword (on Internet Marketing For Newbies) to ranking in the 50's. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why this had suddenly happened and after a few weeks I couldn't figure out why I wasn't recovering even after I continued to work on the site like I had been before.
After a while I noticed SeoQuake was showing "no" for robots.txt and I took a look at it. It pointed to Attractas site where it claimed my robots.txt was located but actually just showed a file that claimed my original file was an unreadable XML file.
I deleted all of my sites from Attracta after that. I went through and rebuilt my robots.txt file by hand then copy and pasted it through the other sites I'd added to Attracta.
It's been 2 days since I fixed my robots.txt file and I've jumped from roughly #52 to #34 and I expect it to continue its way back to page 1.
My real point here is, don't forget to add your robots.txt file. Without mine, my site bombed.
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