sitemap.xml

[Elderberry]

Just as a data point. I use E-Rice and I don't have a problem with the sitemap.

Mike

Edit: Well I should have checked before posting this. I went to the webmaster tools
        and sure enough I have the same problem. It was working so something changed
        either on Google or E-rice.

[ALITTLEweird1]

How does a robot.txt file timeout? Google is saying that. I never changed anything with my sitemap or robot.txt file when I made the change to e-rice.

URL timeout: robots.txt timeout

[Elderberry]

Yeah, I have not changed anything either and I seem to be getting the
same error. I would suspect a problem at Google. Be interesting to
see what Alan at E-Rice says about it.

Mike

[niko]

Another reference point, Carterlake who started the thread is on e-rice too.

[ALITTLEweird1]

is your sitemap validating, or you just getting a robots error?

[niko]

Mark, just a side comment, have you disallowed the log and xxx in your robot.txt (the one I can see doesn't show that)?

Disallow: /log
Disallow: /xxx

[ALITTLEweird1]

Mark, just a side comment, have you disallowed the log and xxx in your robot.txt (the one I can see doesn't show that)?

Disallow: /log
Disallow: /xxx

No...I didnt do that. Will add that now.

[ALITTLEweird1]

I resubmitted my sitemap to google after fixing the robots.txt file and i just got the error again saying the robots file is timing out. Im starting to think its on googles end, least i hope so.

[niko]

Hmmm http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35164  do you have to tell them the url of robots.txt in the setup ?

[ALITTLEweird1]

In the webmaster tools section, you can have google Analyze your robots file.

URL results URL                                                      Googlebot      Googlebot-Mobile
http://www.snoqualmieweather.com/robots.txt              Allowed             Allowed 


URL results URL                                            Googlebot    Googlebot-Mobile
http://www.snoqualmieweather.com                  Allowed          Allowed 

So the timing out thing is odd, since there results are showing they can access it.

[niko]

That is strange, you would think that if it was a global problem with google that there would be a lot of people posting on the internet, but google    doesn't find that 

Have you looked in your error log on e-rice?

[ALITTLEweird1]

Nothing really stands out in the log to me.

[ALITTLEweird1]

this is interesting...

Line 0 :  http://www.snoqualmieweather.com/robots.txt robots.txt file does not appear to be valid

There is no Line 0...lol

[niko]

Try lower case A

User-agent:

[ALITTLEweird1]

Heres a nice robots.txt file checker.

http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml

It showed a few errors that I didnt know I had. Now hopefully Google wont show any errors in mine. Time will tell.