Cannot Crawl ... 612 : Page banned by error response for robots.txt.
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I tried to crawl www.cartronix.com and I get this error:
612 : Page banned by error response for robots.txt.
I have a robots.txt file and it does not appear to be blocking anything
Also, Search Console is showing "allowed" in the robots.txt test...
I've crawled many of our other sites that are similarly set up without issue.
What could the problem be?
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Thank you everyone... I'm learning! And you are helping!
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Great - just checked the robots.txt with web-sniffer & shows a 200 status now so crawl shouldn't be an issue.
Dirk
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I think I figured it out... For some reason, robots.txt was set at 600...I changed it to 644... I will run crawl again... Thanks.
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Thank you for the responses. Can you give me any direction on how to correct this? I am lost
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Your robots.txt renders in a browser - but from technical perspective it generates a 403: Forbidden (check http://www.cartronix.com/robots.txt with web-sniffer.net)
Moz will not crawl if your robots.txt is returning a 403 (see answer from Chiaryn Miranda / Moz on https://moz.com/community/q/without-robots-txt-no-crawling
Quote: "The only commands from the http responses that we consider to block our crawler from accessing a site would be a 403: Forbidden error or a 5xx error."
Dirk
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