URL blocked by Robots.txt Issue in WMT, Pleas Help!!!

[ansrikanth]

Hello,
My website - http://infworm.com
Robots.txt - Http://infworm.com/robots.txt
SEO Plugin - Yoast SEO Plugin
Sitemap - http://infworm.com/sitemap_index.xml

I have recently recovered from a problem where my website was accidently put into noindex mode. I have fixed it. Now, I have re-submitted my Sitemap to Google, generated by Yoast plugin. Google Indexes my site weekly and after my site went to index,follow mode; The number of indexed pages in google started increasing slowly, until recently, Google is showing just 2 pages indexed, and with 586 Warnings telling: "Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt." and "Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt."


Example:
Sitemap: infworm.com/post-sitemap.xml
Value: http://infworm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Apple-iPad-Vs-Amazon-Kindle-Fire.jpg

Sitemap: infworm.com/post-sitemap.xml
Value: http://infworm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/AS-Social-media.png

In My XML Sitemaps settings in Yoast, I have not excluded any post types in my sitemaps (like images,categories, tags, etc). But I have in Titles and Meta settings - Noindex categories, tags and formats.

Please Help me with the Google WMT sitemaps issue!!!

[zico82]

Hello,
My website - http://infworm.com
Robots.txt - Http://infworm.com/robots.txt
SEO Plugin - Yoast SEO Plugin
Sitemap - http://infworm.com/sitemap_index.xml

I have recently recovered from a problem where my website was accidently put into noindex mode. I have fixed it. Now, I have re-submitted my Sitemap to Google, generated by Yoast plugin. Google Indexes my site weekly and after my site went to index,follow mode; The number of indexed pages in google started increasing slowly, until recently, Google is showing just 2 pages indexed, and with 586 Warnings telling: "Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt." and "Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt."


Example:
Sitemap: infworm.com/post-sitemap.xml
Value: http://infworm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Apple-iPad-Vs-Amazon-Kindle-Fire.jpg

Sitemap: infworm.com/post-sitemap.xml
Value: http://infworm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/AS-Social-media.png

In My XML Sitemaps settings in Yoast, I have not excluded any post types in my sitemaps (like images,categories, tags, etc). But I have in Titles and Meta settings - Noindex categories, tags and formats.

Please Help me with the Google WMT sitemaps issue!!!

The reason those URLs are blocked is exactly the reason Webmaster tools is telling you. You have blocked the /wp-content/ directory so anything in there should be blocked.

[ansrikanth]

The reason those URLs are blocked is exactly the reason Webmaster tools is telling you. You have blocked the /wp-content/ directory so anything in there is blocked. Remove that line from your robots.txt and they will no longer be blocked.

Thanks for the quick reply!!
I have removed the /content/ disallow line from my robots.txt and re-submitted my sitemap.
Now Google WMT has crawled it and is showing more warnings than the previous time.

Example:
Sitemap: infworm.com/page-sitemap.xml
Value: http://infworm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FACEBOOK-COVER.gif

What am I still doing wrong related to sitemap_index.xml and robots.txt? I am not getting it!!!