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Google says i have a robot.txt but i dont....

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    Google says i have a robot.txt but i dont....

    When im at the https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard and i try to add a Site map to my site it keep saying that it cant access it because there is a robot.txt file, but the problem is, i dont have a robot.txt file.

    Any ideas what i can do?

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    You do have one: http://cornygraphics.com/robots.txt

    Also, this is the sitemap URL you should be submitting to Google: http://cornygraphics.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

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    I know i have it know, i put it there thinking that it would help but it didnt and i did submit that to google.

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    Sorry for the double post

    But does anyone know anything i could do?

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    check for typos and any meta tags relating to robots (noindex, noarchive, etc)

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    Checked, and theres no typos

    I dont know if this helps but this is what im looking at

    <if condition="$show['search_noindex']"><meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /></if>

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    that might be it. kill it temporarily and try to submit again

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    hopfully when you said kill it, you meant remove it. If so..
    I did and it had no effect

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    you don't appear to have a sitemap at all

    http://cornygraphics.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

    its blank/empty/404

    did you install the sitempa generator add-on and run it?

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    Yes, i Uploaded all the fellows and installed the plug-in but instead of uploading the .htaccess i edited the .htaccess that came with vBSEO and put this at the end

    Code:
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
    And installed the Product it came with.

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    the default vbseo htaccess has the sitemap rule in already.

    there is no edit need to be done.

    re-upload the default vbseo htaccess and then try again to access that link

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    There we go that did, Thanks for your support.

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    cool deal

    did google accept it as well?

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    Yup

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