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We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap.

This is a discussion on We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. within the Bug Reporting forums, part of the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap category; I keep getting the following from google but robots.txt only has: # Exclude Files From All Robots: User-agent: * Disallow: ...

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    Exclamation We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap.

    I keep getting the following from google but robots.txt only has:
    # Exclude Files From All Robots:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /images/
    Disallow: /gallery/images/
    Disallow: /gallery/data/
    Disallow: /gallery/data/500/

    # End robots.txt file

    google says:

    This Sitemap has the following errors:
    Errors 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. [?]

    when i click help it says:


    We couldn't find the Sitemap at the location you provided. Please make sure the Sitemap URL is correct and resubmit your Sitemap.

    We were unable to find your Sitemap at the URL you provided. Ensure that you've typed the URL correctly and that the URL is encoded for readability by the webserver on which it is located. Then try to add your Sitemap again.


    im using v1.7RC4
    Last edited by xboxlive42626; 11-24-2006 at 03:48 AM.

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    Hello,

    What is the URL you are submitting?

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    i just checked and it seems i some how blocked google with my robots.txt now hopefuly it will get there

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