Googlebot blocked - can't figure out why
Please help us, our forum very much depends on being indexed by Google.
As of October 1, Googlebot suddenly cannot access our forum at http://www.spywareinfoforum.com. I know of nothing that changed on the server that day. We do not seem to have ModSecurity - locate doesn't report any. I don't find any likely address banned in iptables. Adding this line at the top of INPUT hasn't helped: ACCEPT all -- 66.249.64.0/19 anywhere The error that Googlebot gets (using Fetch as Googlebot in Webmaster Tools): Quote:
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Solved
Solved - I feel foolish - 66.249.71.38 was denied in ~/.htaccess file on 02-21-2010 with my note Mediapartners-Google.
Apparently Googlebot didn't use that IP until October 1, 2012. Not a total waste of time posting here as writing it somehow clarified my fuzzy thinking. I love LinuxQuestions. |
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