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Old July 23rd, 2003, 06:07 PM
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I started optimizing a website http://www.trapezeclub.com about 2 months ago and until 10 days ago it had #1 ranking for more than 10 search phrases in MSN and Hotbot.

Then, over night all the rankings disappeared (nothing in the first 100 results any more). I got the message that the site cannot be respidered because:

8006 ERROR_SITE: Failed to retieve robots.txt
Problem: The robots.txt file for your web site, could not be retrieved.
Solution: Please ensure that the robots.txt file returns either a 200 or 404 status code.

Can please somebody explain to me what is going on. As far as I know there are no robots.txt files there anyways.

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Old July 24th, 2003, 06:09 AM
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Hi, maybe worth trying adding a robot.txt file on your server. Just create a new text file with notepad and add the following:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Then save as robots.txt and upload to your server. I had sort of the same problem with other bots where I could see they were hitting my site but they were requesting the robots.txt file and then getting a error_docs not found page because there was no robots file there. I made a robots.txt file and now they seem to crawl ok. Hope this helps.
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Old July 24th, 2003, 08:33 AM
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Thank you - I will try that and will let you know whether it works or not.
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Old July 31st, 2003, 12:09 PM
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hey awicked
Your suggestion helped - the site is back in Inktomi. However, all the positions are still lost.
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give it time. the inktomi bot takes time to crawl a site. people in these forums say it can take upto 6 months for the bot to crawl deep into your site.
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I started optimizing a website URL about 2 months ago and until 10 days ago it had #1 ranking for more than 10 search phrases in MSN and Hotbot.

Then, over night all the rankings disappeared (nothing in the first 100 results any more). I got the message that the site cannot be respidered because:

8006 ERROR_SITE: Failed to retieve robots.txt
Problem: The robots.txt file for your web site, could not be retrieved.
Solution: Please ensure that the robots.txt file returns either a 200 or 404 status code.

Can please somebody explain to me what is going on. As far as I know there are no robots.txt files there anyways.

Thanks in advance


Hi,

I've got exactly the same problem with a site !
And I really don't understand why because the file robots.txt exists on URL

I tried some tools which crawl the robots.txt file like URL and which found the file BUT found a error too : "There should be atleast 1 disallow line in any Robots.txt"
More incomprehensible cause the disallow line IS in !

& :-?

Help thx !
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I don't think this is anything to do with robots.text. It's to do with Inktomi changing the way results are displayed. They have altered their results to give a supposedly more accurate geographical bias. If you want to check your postioning without a regional bias use

http://search.positiontech.com/Inkt...nTechSearch.jsp

Inktomi have admitted that the results are flawed in some cases and are supposedly working to fix it.

HTH
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i need help with my ranks in inktomi
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