Google Webmaster tools – robots.txt warning

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  rozzava · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 11:22 am

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  hey there,

  i just checked my webmaster tools – and sudently a warning appeared by the robots.txt:

  Sitemap: http://letstalkknowledge.net/sitemap.xml
  Sitemap: http://letstalkknowledge.net/news-sitemap.xml

  User-agent: IRLbot
  Crawl-delay: 3600

  What to do? – how to change?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  rozzava · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 4:53 pm

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  http://letstalkknowledge.net/robots.txt

  Please, anyone?.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 5:06 pm

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  Hi there,

  I tagged this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

  Does Google Webmaster Tools give any details about what the critical issue is with your site’s robots.txt file? Please post theme here. Or will you provide a screenshot for Staff please? I’ll tag this thread for their attention. You can use http://snag.gy/ to share screenshots and link to them here.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 5:08 pm

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  Oops! Sorry just clicked the link above and what I see is normal. All of those ought to be blocked by robots.txt. You do not have an issue. Everything is as it should be.

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 5:16 pm

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  you are also in violation of the Terms of Service

  You might also review the TOS before you get too far along:

  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-guidelines/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/

  Report a Site

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  rozzava · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 6:05 pm

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  I see… I’m editing all post (since yesterday), but is it changeable? Or will it be like this forever?..

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  timethief · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 6:09 pm

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  There is no robot.txt issue on your blog.

  However, there are Terms of Service issues because you posted advertising and no blogger initiated advertising is allowed on WordPress.com hosted blogs.

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 8, 2015 at 6:21 pm

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  @TT doesn’t anyone ever read the warnings? Maybe the warnings are a waste of time and the blog should just be flagged for suspension and skip the extra work giving a warning?