Indexing Help?

preciousbags

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Mar 20, 2010
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Hi all

I am having a problem with google indexing my website lately.

Since 12 January webmasters tools has not updated although i have added lots of new pages since then and lots of blog posts.

When i google some of the new pages - none are showing

Google usually visits my site quite often.

I am also getting the error on my robots.txt

Crawl postponed because robots.txt was inaccessible.

Does anyone have any solutions or advice?

I am a little worried

My hits havent been affect as they have increased and i am still indexed for all pages before the 12th.

Thanks in advance
 
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Ninja Commerce

Hi there.

It's impossible to say without looking at your site and the code etc... You certainly seem to have an error somewhere.

There is an extension for chrome that tells you whenever you are on a page that has any sort of robot blocking (meta nofollow/noindex etc...)

Try installing that and then look at your pages. You will probably find that they are noindex in some way.

After that you need to figure out where the noindex tag is hiding. Your robots.txt is the obvious place to look, but also check your htaccess file and just your site template for anything that doesn't look right.

Also, on webmaster tools try uploading a sitemap. You can create a site map as a txt file, which is the simplest way to test it. Get google to check the site map and if there are no noindex problems it should be able to find all of your pages no problem.
 
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Clicky Leap

When did Google last cache your homepage? You should be able to find by clicking in the cache view in the Google search results.

It could be that they have not indexed your site since the 12th and picked up the new pages.
 
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