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#11905 google robots.txt blocked my URLs in webmaster tools

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 08 April 2012 12:01 CDT

Sunday, 08 April 2012 08:27 CDT

kbouchafaa

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? YES
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Joomla! version: (2.5.4)
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Admin Tools version: (pro latest)

Description of my issue:
Under Google webmaster tools, i got this when submitting sitemap:
Blocked URLS :my URL/robots.txt
blocked URLS 183 --> GOOGLE tried to crawl these URLs in the last 90 days, but was blocked by robots.txt

What to do?

Sunday, 08 April 2012 08:36 CDT

nicholas

This is because you have applied the very conservative by default .htaccess file by .htaccess Maker. Go to Admin Tools, .htaccess Maker, Server Protection and add

robots.txt

to the "Allow direct access to these files" list, then click on Save and create .htaccess.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Sunday, 08 April 2012 08:59 CDT

kbouchafaa

I did thanks alot.

Sunday, 08 April 2012 12:01 CDT