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MirandaP last edited by

I am getting this error whe I try to crawl http://photosales.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ but my robots.txt file does not block any bots?
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KeriMorgret last edited by

Hi Judith,

If you're still having problems, send an email to help@seomoz.org and they'll be able to help you figure out why Roger doesn't want to crawl your site.
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AlanMosley @MirandaP last edited by

I am useing the Bing SEO Toolkit, it worked fine for me,

try removeing robots for a test
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MirandaP @MirandaP last edited by

the SEOmoz crawler
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AlanMosley @MirandaP last edited by

What are you iusing to crawl?
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MirandaP @AlanMosley last edited by

I'm sure why it let you scroll and not me?
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AlanMosley last edited by
I just scroled it ok.

but you dont need to put the user agent in twice, this will do below
It was bloking a lot of pages but it crawled the ones you allowed
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: */wo/
Disallow: */ajax/
```
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