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    kdonnigan
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    Just finished Digging Into WordPress. Thanks for writing such a great book. I had one question though…

    In the sidebar on page 307, you link to the Spider Test Tool – http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test/

    I went there and put in my website – http://www.anythinggraphic.net. Everything checked out fine. Then I put in a blog post, again everything was fine. THEN I put in my blog URL – http://www.anythinggraphic.net/blog/ and nothing came up. I remember a while ago checking another tool regarding something else and it said ### Forbidden for my blog URL (pound signs mean numbers I don’t remember…).

    Why is my blog URL not showing anything in the Spider Test Tool and is this a problem that I need to fix? Or, is this a normal WP thing? Anybody else notice this problem?

    Thanks Chris! You rock :-)

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    Chris Coyier
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    I’d check that your robots.txt file doesn’t say anything about not indexing your blog. And also, check for any tags saying “noindex”. Probably not it, but a good double check just in case.

    #81588
    kdonnigan
    Member

    Hi Chris, thanks for your suggestions. Here is my robots.txt:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-*
    Disallow: *.php
    Disallow: */feed*
    Disallow: */trackback*
    Disallow: /20*

    My header does NOT contain anything regarding no-index. I only have 1 META tag but it’s just the default WP stuff…

    Any other thoughts?

    #81286
    kdonnigan
    Member

    I think I may have found the problem. I recently redesigned my whole website from the inside out and left a folder called ‘blog’ as my last theme had the blog in a subdirectory. Now it doesn’t. Let’s see if that helps!

    Thanks for your previous tips Chris :-) Did I mention DIW rocks! lol.

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