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   7/09/09

   dcarroll

   First, go to the settings page on your blog and make sure it is searchable.
   
   Your blog may also have a security feature that doesn't allow bots. I don't know how to enable/disable or circumvent that, but you may have to address that issue.

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      7/09/09

      Mkcoy

      Thanks. Yes, that is enabled.
      Add your blog to our listings? [Yes]
      Let search engines find your blog? [Yes]
      
      Hmm this has never happened on any of my other blogs before.
      How would I address the issue of it not allowing bots?
      There are no other settings and I can't access the robots.txt
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      7/09/09

      dcarroll

      This may be of little help.
      Go to the blogger help groups and known issues.
      You may find it there, but probalby not.
      You can post a question, but it may not be answered.
      Luck.
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   7/09/09

   trailofpen

   What exactly is robots.txt blocking? Your blogger subdomain or a directory w/in the subdomain?

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      7/09/09

      trailofpen

      Ok so I looked at your robots.txt and there is nothing abnormal about it. The search directory doesn't matter, it just contains your labels, and either way, you can't change that, and they won't change it for you server side either. Search engines usually use your sitemap so they aren't going to miss anything by not having the /search directory.
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   7/09/09

   Mkcoy

   Cheers. Good Idea. I did. Will see what they say thanks =)

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   7/09/09

   Mkcoy

   @ trailofpen. It's apparantly blocking any search engine from indexing my site.
   
   I was recieving steadily climbing visitors from Google and then all of a sudden they just stopped. And have not had any hits from Google search engine traffic now for about 5 days it's weird.

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   1. 

      7/09/09

      dcarroll

      One thing I will ask, and not require an answer,"Have you violated any TOS rules?"
      
      That would come with some sanctions.
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      7/09/09

      trailofpen

      If you submit your sitemap to search engines, then you won't have any problems. The /search directory does no affect your pages being indexed or not. I have blogger sitemaps submitted to google and the robots.txt has never given me problems even though it looks almost the same as yours. /search only contains your labels, nothing more.
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   7/09/09

   timethief

   @MCoy

   
   Are you running Google Adsense ads on your blog?I'm asking because a quick Google search does turn up problems that sound like yours that were happening in 2008 tinyurl.com/create.php
   
   Also have you contacted Blogger staff and requested and explanation and/or assistance? That would be the first thing that I would do if this was happening with my blog.
   
   

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6. 

   7/09/09

   Mkcoy

   @ dcaroll No I've not violated any TOS or Blogger or Adsense TOS. It's nothing to do with that. It was just an error notice I got when submitting my blog to scrubtheweb.com. Not sure why it said "ALL robots blocked from indexing this URL!" but now I think I know that it doesn't matter. It's just a error notice that, that site gives me based on its own settings on search engines as it knows it. After looking up on it and asking on the blogger help forum here. www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=316dbea2d94013e5&hl=en
   
   timethief yes I am and have seeked help via the Google forum as above thankyou Also the link you provided didn't load.
   
   trailofpen Yeah I don't think now after looking it up it's anything to worry about. Would like to know more about the cse.xml and what it actually does but think I can submit without worry. It was probably just what that site said for whatever reason making me think that was the reason why the sudden drop in organic traffic.

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      7/09/09

      trailofpen

      The cse.xml is just an xml file for Google's custom search engine on your site.
7. 

   7/09/09

   Mkcoy

   dcarroll thinking about it. Don't know why I didn't think of it. My blog was recently flagged and locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. But I requested an unlock review. I got to do captcha everytime I post. Also tweetmeme is having some problems crawling it as well help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/15/button-faq/#2
   that could be because the crawler timed out itself though.
   But some images are not loading on my blog and even feedburner is not displaying the chicklet right. Are all these things together a coincedence? Could it be why I'm not getting the same organic traffic results anymore? What do you mean by sanctions?
   
   Edit other search engine traffic is picking up actually Yahoo MSN etc just not the big G. No love for me
   Wish i knew how to crack it.
   
   Does the top right banner display? how-to-earn-swagbucks.blogspot.com/

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8. 

   7/14/09

   Mkcoy

   Think that has nothing to do with it now.
   I think Google has sandboxed me..

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