Bad robots.txt - Please help!

Bad robots.txt

[JackieB]

I ram my robots.txt file through a "validator" and it may have errors.

Here is the text of the file
###############################
#
#
User-agent: *
#
# list folders robots are not allowed to index
Disallow: /web/images/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /slideshow/
Disallow: /galleries/
Disallow: /engagements/
Disallow: /gallery1/
Disallow: /gallery2/
Disallow: /gallery3/

# User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

#
#

It is telling me that each foolder path may be misintrupreted.
I copied the Google no image text directly from the google site.

Thanks,
Jackie
###############################

[Code Sentinel]

remove the comment # before the google user agent and move the whole google section ABOVE the user agent * section.

[JackieB]

Thank you for your note. It appears that your site is no longer in our
index. Google will continue to exclude your site from successive crawls if
the robots.txt file exists in the web server root. Once you remove or
change your robot.txt file, your site should be picked up in future
crawls. More information on robots.txt is available at
[robotstxt.org...]

I read this. All I want to do is not have the images archived. What is wrong with this robots.txt?

Please help!

Jackie

[JackieB]

###############################
#
#

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
#
#
User-agent: *
#
# list folders robots are not allowed to index
Disallow: /web/images/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /slideshow/
Disallow: /galleries/
Disallow: /engagements/
Disallow: /gallery1/
Disallow: /gallery2/
Disallow: /gallery3/
#
#
###############################

[JackieB]

I deleted the Googlebot line. Although I don't want Google to index the images, if I can't figure out why they won't crawl me, it is better than nothing.

Jackie

[Code Sentinel]

did you not read my post?

[JackieB]

I did. The Googlebot line was moved to the top.

However, that was before google told me they wouldn't ixex me again at all unless I remove the robots.txt file.

So, I am thinking it would be safer for me to remove the google reference altogether.

nothin' like being in the first 3 spots on my keywords to being removed completely!

I am scared to death!

Jackie

[bill]

Your previous robots.txt effectively blocked all robots from your entire site. What the search engines would see is:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

That disallows all robots from all directories on your site.

You'll have to wait for the robots to come back and see your new robots.txt file.

[JackieB]

###############################
#
#
#
User-agent: *
#
# list folders robots are not allowed to index
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /slideshow/
Disallow: /galleries/
Disallow: /engagements/
Disallow: /gallery1/
Disallow: /gallery2/
Disallow: /gallery3/
#
#
###############################

Latest version.

If this works, I will NEVER touch robots.txt again.

thanks,
jackie