Sitemap Problems: Please Help

by Oscar D

Posted: 17 years ago 7 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Good day,

I have a website that I launched a few weeks ago. Firstly I played with wordpress, but eventually I decided to just build the site with standard .html

Anyway the site is now live, but Google has not updated the listing and Google has also not updated the website description. I have tried to use Webmaster Tools, but I am getting a error.

I have verified the site and added the sitemap, but Webmaster Tools is giving me this error:

Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable
We were unable to crawl your Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your site but were unable to download it. Please ensure that it is accessible or remove it completely.

I have looked for a robots.txt file and I cannot see one, what could the problem be?

Please help me

#problems #sitemap

Jon MacPherson 17 years ago

Sorry I don't know about the robots.txt...

When I build html sites I go to xml-sitemaps(dot)com and make an .xml and .html sitemap and submit to google.

The fastest way I get sites indexed is by submitting a page or post to digg

Good luck
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- Jamie Iaconis 17 years ago
  
  Hi,
  
  Are you sure it is still there?
  
  Is it in the right directory?
  
  Thanks
  
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  Oscar D 17 years ago
  
  I don't have a robots.txt file in the directory so I dont know why the webmaster tools is saying that?
  
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  Originally Posted by Jamie Iaconis
  
  Hi,
  
  Are you sure it is still there?
  
  Is it in the right directory?
  
  Thanks
  
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Oscar D 17 years ago

The site is verfied, there is just an error and none of the pages are being indexed,
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Devon Brown 17 years ago

What kind of file are you using for your sitemap?
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Oscar D 17 years ago

A .xml file
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- anth.elias 17 years ago
  
  First go here Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator and create a site map if you have not already.
  
  Here is a typical robots.text file
  
  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /cgi-bin/
  Disallow: /scripts/
  Disallow: /images/
  
  Blocking SE for accessing those folders listed.
  
  The robots.txt file should not be in a folder, or any where else unless in a subdomain, it should in the root of your site where your index.html, index. htm, or index.php files reside.
  
  That's it that's all you need to do, you will need to resubmit you site map file to Google webmasters tools.
  
  If I were you I would dump that plain boring HTML site and upload Joomla, much better, and it comes with a site map plugin.
  
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