Url's Restricted by Robots

[Nancy]

I am doing some maintenance on my site, and I was checking google tools, I have 33 urls that are being restricted by robots. They are all php files. All of the urls work, I checked. So what can I do to fix the problem?

I checked on the internet but can't really find anything that would fix or answer this problem.

Nancy

[Skyrocket]

Hi Nancy,

this normally means that you have a text file called robots.txt which is restricting web spiders from search engines from accessing information on those pages and therefore not indexing them in their search records.

I created one to stop search engines searching on a few files and folders that my site uses by I don't want indexed. I've a feeling you've not created one on purpose if at all as you'd know about it, however I don't know if IPower have one automatically created for you?

Take a look at the files in your web space and see if you have a robots.txt file. If you do you can either delete it or change the content of it to stop restricting your files. If you don't then I'm not sure why you get this message, I don't use .php files but I don't suspect it's anything to do with this type of file.

Regards,

Jim

[Nancy]

Thanks Jim,

I do some checking around and see what is what
Nancy

[Sandi Moses]

nancy2 said:

I am doing some maintenance on my site, and I was checking google tools, I have 33 urls that are being restricted by robots. They are all php files. All of the urls work, I checked. So what can I do to fix the problem?

I checked on the internet but can't really find anything that would fix or answer this problem.

Nancy

The php files that I have are redirects. Some I don't care if Google follows or not, but the ones that lead to Traffic Payouts offers and a few others are php redirects specifically so Google doesn't follow them.

Sandi

[Nancy]

Thanks Sandi, ;D

I did have a few that redirected to tah, but most of the ones are not. I am not going through my whole site and changing links again, I don't have the patience for that! So I am just letting it go.

Nancy