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This is a discussion on all forum has restricted by robots.txt ! within the General Discussion forums, part of the vBulletin SEO Discussion category; Hi dears after changing robots.txt according http://www.vbseo.com/f34/how-complet...archive-24545/ I have errors in https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ and for resubmit http://forum.dehcadeh.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz I see URL restricted ...

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    all forum has restricted by robots.txt !

    Hi dears

    after changing robots.txt according [How To] Completely Turn Off the vBulletin Archive

    I have errors in https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

    and for resubmit http://forum.dehcadeh.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

    I see URL restricted by robots.txt message!

    too, in Webmaster Tools --->Web crawl errors ---> URLs restricted by robots.txt

    http://forum.dehcadeh.com/



    forumhome restricted by robots.txt !!!

    my robots.txt is like this :
    # Allow Archiver
    User-agent: ia_archiver
    Allow: /


    User-agent: Slurp
    Crawl-delay: 60


    User-agent: *
    Disallow: *.js
    Disallow: *.jsp
    Disallow: *.cfm
    Disallow: *.asp
    Disallow: *.aspx
    Disallow: *.cgi
    Disallow: /usercp.php
    Disallow: /calendar.php
    Disallow: /search.php
    Disallow: /online.php
    Disallow: /album.php
    Disallow: /profile.php
    Disallow: /subscription.php
    Disallow: /member.php?u=
    Disallow: /register.php
    Disallow: /printthread.php
    Disallow: /sendmessage.php
    Disallow: /post
    Disallow: /showthread.php?p=
    Disallow: /showthread.php?mode=
    Disallow: /showthread.php?goto=newpost
    Disallow: /?nojs=
    Disallow: /announcements
    Disallow: /misc.php?do=whoposted&t=
    Disallow: /newthread.php?do=newthread&f=
    Disallow: /newreply.php?do=newreply&p=
    Disallow: /editpost.php?do=editpost&p=
    Disallow: /login.php
    Disallow: /memberlist.php
    Disallow: /faq.php
    Disallow: /private.php
    Disallow: /admincp/
    Disallow: /modcp/
    Disallow: /includes/
    Disallow: /install/
    Disallow: /customavatars/
    Disallow: /archive/
    Disallow: /sitemap/

    Sitemap: http://forum.dehcadeh.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz
    Is thit problem for Disallow: /sitemap/ ?

    thanks for guidance

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    Hello,

    your robots.txt looks good to me, I just checked it with Google's "Analyze robots.txt" tool as well and your forums home is reported as "allowed" by it.
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    thanks Oleg Ignatiuk

    ok

    why I have error in sitemap google webmaster and can't resubmit sitemap to google webmaster ?

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    What exactly is the error message? Can you post a screenshot?
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    Disallow: /?nojs=

    might be the culprtit.

    I would remove that rule and try again.

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