Just recently, and completely out of nowhere, I've been having issues submitting my sitemap to Google via webmaster tools.
Upon further inspection, it seems that Googlebot has been denied access for an unknown reason. And meanwhile, on top of this problem, nearly 2,000 pages in my arcade have been removed from Google's index.
This is the message according to Google webmaster tools:
And this is the information inside my robots.txt file:
Code:
User-Agent: *
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Sitemap: http://www.wordcade.com/sitemap.xml
And on the other hand, my webmaster blog is having nothing wrong with it:
And the contents of robots.txt for my webmaster blog:
Code:
User-Agent: *
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Sitemap: http://www.blackwaterblog.com/sitemap.xml