Vlada, you should have told us that in the first place.

Oh, having all the relevant info just takes all the fun out of it.

I was suspecting that, as I’m seeing more of those site restricted robots.txt for blogs that are under review.

As for the crawl errors in your Webmaster console: Look at the date in “last calculated”, it tells you when the page in question was blocked by robots.txt. If you find a date shortly after the lift, that may be a caching issue.

Yes, I think I was reviewed by google spam policy because I can’t published several days. Posts were only saved and later on published.

I wanted to ask you. At Google wembmasters I still see many URLs restricted by robots.txt (191)like:

http://stockweb.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-offer-for-abn.html
http://stockweb.blogspot.com/2007/04/bmw-grows-in-china.html

Even thoughts robots.txt is not blocking them now..??

Thank you

Thanks for stopping by to post this report. Perhaps some day we will get this curiosity undeceived

Vlada, if you read that, please clarify. Thanks.

Let’s cover-setting a blog to unlisted in the settings will put in the noindex meta tag if you are using the standard template tags (as it has for years) but doesn’t change the new robots.txt

If you make a blog private (login) then it does make the robots.txt like the one in question, but that can’t be it here as we were able to view the blog.

What I have just verified, if the blog is open BUT Blogger has locked the blog from posting until it’s been reviewed and cleared as a possible spam blog, then the robots.txt does revert to how that guys was, and as soon as the review clears, then it goes back to normal.

I’ve verified this on someone elses site that was locked for review. Of course only the owner can verify if he was under review at the time or not.

I think you’ve emailed that guy already. If a polite request to stop publishing your feed gets ignored, you can switch to headlines and snippets until he loses interest. Unfortunately, many RSS scrapers reprint even partial feeds. In the meantime you can try a DCMA complaint, but make sure that your blog states clearly that you do not permit reprinting your feed’s contents. Technically you can’t block that guy from sucking a blogspot feed.

I won’t go so far to say that your reciprocal links to directories and ’services’ smelling like link farms are responsible for the changed robots.txt, but they’re definitely not useful and I’d remove these useless links as soon as possible.

Reciprocal links put for the sole purpose of boosting PageRank violate Google’s guidelines. Even if you don’t get penalized for a dozen reciprocal links, these tend to nullify each other. You gain nothing except unwanted attention of spam seeking algos, and you can lose a lot when you participate in public link scams, err schemes.

Reciprocal linkage is not a bad thing in general. Say another blogger mentions your blog in a post and you write a piece linking to him because he has got compelling contents, that’s reciprocal but perfectly Ok. Natural linkage can’t hurt your rankings.

Now a question for you: do you positively know why your robots.txt reverted to Blogger-standard yesterday?

1.Are those meta tags usefull or not?
2.How to block this guy (www.business-house.net) who is stealing my feed? I’d like to provide full feed for readers.
3.I created Reciprocal links in footer to improve PR. Do you think are they usefull?

Thank you in advance

Welcome Pete Hopkins! What do you think of an open discussion of some submitted Blogger-bugs respectively flaws, which did not make it on your “known bugs” blog? For example the extremely unlogical handling of rel-nofollow in comments, which is not compliant to the rel-nofollow semantics nor the official Google position on rel-nofollow? Or an easier procedure to label old posts? … Thanks for your visit

Besides a couple of the NOINDEX snafus, at one point Blogger seemed like they were experimenting (or it was a bug then too) of putting in a NOINDEX meta tag in suspected spam blogs (ones they required word verification for posting). I wonder if this could have been similar (consider where it occurred) or if it was just a straight out bug.

But also interesting, in your list of MyBlogLog recent readers, I see a Blogger Programmer in the list. Maybe you caught his attention with your post about it.

As for the captcha, you may get what you ask for, so be careful with your blogger wish list