SEO

I'm getting this error...

URL restricted by robots.txt
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

I resubmitted and got the same error.

This is the sitemap URL I submitted:
http://www.jdmuniverse.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Here is my robots.txt:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
# Allow Archiver
User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /
User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 60

User-agent: *

Disallow: /forums/ajax.php
Disallow: /forums/attachment.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/global.php
Disallow: /forums/image.php
Disallow: /forums/faq.php
Disallow: /forums/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/poll.php
Disallow: /forums/postings.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/reputation.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/payments.php
Disallow: /forums/showpost.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/spiders.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/usernote.php
Disallow: /forums/admincp/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /forums/includes/
Disallow: /forums/install/
Disallow: /forums/modcp/
Disallow: /customavatars/
Disallow: /forums/xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /forums/archive/
Disallow: /forums/sitemap/
Disallow: /forums/gallery/member.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showgallery.php?limit=
Disallow: /forums/gallery/comshow.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/search.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*search.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showframe.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/slideshow.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*limit
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*ppuser
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*views
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*date
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*recent
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*in
Sitemap: http://www.jdmuniverse.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz


Any idea what's wrong? :(

Miguel

Double Post.

Wow, I just used a robots.txt generator to allow all engines and I still get the error :(

Here's my new robots.txt

# robots.txt generated at International SEO | SEM | PPC - McAnerin International Inc.
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /forums/ajax.php
Disallow: /forums/attachment.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/global.php
Disallow: /forums/image.php
Disallow: /forums/faq.php
Disallow: /forums/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/poll.php
Disallow: /forums/postings.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/reputation.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/payments.php
Disallow: /forums/showpost.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/spiders.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/usernote.php
Disallow: /forums/admincp/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /forums/includes/
Disallow: /forums/install/
Disallow: /forums/modcp/
Disallow: /customavatars/
Disallow: /forums/xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /forums/archive/
Disallow: /forums/sitemap/
Disallow: /forums/gallery/member.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showgallery.php?limit=
Disallow: /forums/gallery/comshow.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/search.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*search.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showframe.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/slideshow.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*limit
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*ppuser
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*views
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*date
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*recent
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*in
Sitemap: http://www.jdmuniverse.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz


What on Earth could be the problem?

Miguel

I just completely deleted robots.txt and I still get this error when trying to submit my sitemap!

URL restricted by robots.txt
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

Miguel

get rid of the blank disallow at the top.

Now I used Google's robots.txt generator and made a file with only this:

User-Agent: *
Allow: /


I still get the same error. This is killing me.

Miguel

I even added allows for all googles bots... :( Same error.

# robots.txt generated at International SEO | SEM | PPC - McAnerin International Inc.
User-agent: *
User-Agent: *
Allow: /
User-Agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /
User-Agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-Agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /
User-Agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-Agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /forums/ajax.php
Disallow: /forums/attachment.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/global.php
Disallow: /forums/image.php
Disallow: /forums/faq.php
Disallow: /forums/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/poll.php
Disallow: /forums/postings.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/reputation.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/payments.php
Disallow: /forums/showpost.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/spiders.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/usernote.php
Disallow: /forums/admincp/
Disallow: /forums/includes/
Disallow: /forums/install/
Disallow: /forums/modcp/
Disallow: /customavatars/
Disallow: /forums/xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /forums/archive/
Disallow: /forums/sitemap/
Disallow: /forums/gallery/member.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showgallery.php?limit=
Disallow: /forums/gallery/comshow.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/search.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*search.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/showframe.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/slideshow.php
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*limit
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*ppuser
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*views
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*date
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*recent
Disallow: /forums/gallery/*in
Sitemap: http://www.jdmuniverse.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

OK, when I go into tools of G's site and click analyze robots.txt, it still shows the file in the first post. It says last downloaded 14 hours ago. I guess I have to wait until it DL's it again. Hopefully then I can submit my sitemap.

Miguel