Site not being Indexed that fast anymore, Is something wrong with this Robots.txt
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My wordpress site's robots.txt used to be this:
User-agent: *
Disallow: Sitemap: http://www.domainame.com/sitemap.xml.gz I also have all in one SEO installed and other than posts, tags are also index,follow on my site.
My new posts used to appear on google in seconds after publishing. I changed the robots.txt to following and now post indexing takes hours.
Is there something wrong with this robots.txt? 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-login.php
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /author
Disallow: /category
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /wget/
Disallow: /httpd/
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /?
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.gz$
Disallow: /*.wmv$
Disallow: /*.cgi$
Disallow: /*.xhtml$
Disallow: /?
Disallow: /*?Allow: /wp-content/uploads
User-agent: TechnoratiBot/8.1
Disallow:
ia_archiverUser-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
disable duggmirror
User-agent: duggmirror
Disallow: /
allow google image bot to search all imagesUser-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Allow: /*
# allow adsense bot on entire siteUser-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Allow: /*
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I am not sure why you are setting disallow of file types. Google would not index wmv or js etc anyway as it cannot parse that type of file for data. If you want to coax google into indexing your site submit a sitemap in webmaster tools. You could also set NoFollow on the anchors for the pages you want to exclude and keep robots.txt cleaner by just including top level subdirectories such as admin etc. There just seems to be a lot of directories in there that do not relate to actual pages, and google is only concerned with renderable pages.
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Hello,
Robots.txt, allow or disallow access to certain files or folders. He can not delay or slow down access. I do not think the problem is the robots.txt
Radu
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Why don't you revert back to the original robots.txt and determine for certain that the problem is with this file?
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