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Phil Payne  
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 More options Jul 13 2008, 9:48 am
From: Phil Payne
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:48:04 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, Jul 13 2008 9:48 am
Subject: Re: Sharp traffic drop of 95%
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> Other than that I have tweaked a few things like on page optimization,
> sitemap, allowing outgoing links, few blocks in robots.txt to stop the
> bot wasting time and removing loads of poor quality threads/pages/
> content.

Your robots.txt is broken.

A blank line terminates a User-agent record.  You may not have blank
lines between successive Disallow: statements.

This may well be your problem.  Google seems, of late, reluctant to
crawl sites when it finds a robots.txt file that doesn't conform.


 
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