Question

http://vidgameanswers.com/robots.txt

This is still not fixed: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1287/google-still-hasnt-indexed-my-site-and-its-webmasters-tools-says-ses-robots-tx

If you check out http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:vidgameanswers.com

You'll see the homepage has still not been updated too.

If you can't see in the image, here is a copy of the parse results in Google webmaster tools:

Line 1: ?#  Syntax not understood
Line 69: Sitemap: /sitemap.xml  Invalid sitemap URL detected; syntax not understood

Please, can some one help me?

Thanks, Ash.

Answer 1

I get the same two lines from Google webmaster tools

Line 1: ?#  Syntax not understood
Line 69: Sitemap: /sitemap.xml  Invalid sitemap URL detected; syntax not understood

but my site is getting crawled and indexed. Registering at webmaster tools doesn't get your site crawled/indexed automatically. You still need to convince Google that your site is worth crawling/indexing by getting other people to visit and link to it.

The second line shouldn't bother you, since you can explicitly submit a sitemap to webmaster tools.

Answer 2

I get the same two errors you get and my site is being indexed. I did however use Web Master tools to manualy submit my sitemap. Maybe you should give that a go. In web master tools look under Site Configuration/Sitemaps and you should see a big Submit Sitemap button.

Also if you can find a different site, that is in the same field as yours, and stick a link back to your site on it you will improve your chances of getting indexed.

Answer 3

How do I manually add robots text using Google Webmaster Tools?