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walrus - 6:40 pm on Nov 17, 2007 (gmt 0)


Went very smooth for me except for one crucial detail.....
Try validating your robots file. Been trying for one hour, no luck.
The only time it validated was when i took out User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*

This one below finally validated but no matter what i do i cant get it to validate with the User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* It says cant use 2 user agents in same line, likeit is counting the asterisk as another agent.

User-agent: *
Sitemap: [yoursite.com...]
User-agent: *
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /demos/
Disallow: /tester/

Asa matter of fact it said msn could not crawl my site. is this why i was pulledfromtheir index?

This is what ive used the last 2 years, though it validated but msn says it cant crawl.

Where is the error?

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
User-agent:63.148.99.*
Disallow: /
User-agent:211.157.36.4
Disallow: /
User-agent:213.42.2.29
Disallow: /
User-agent:211.152.14.92
Disallow: /
User-agent:203.111.194.11
Disallow: /
User-agent:*
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /demos/
Disallow: /tester/

PS AAAAAAUUUGHGHHHH!


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