Some web sites in the latest Google update were removed from top positions on Google that had been there for years. Webmasters were trying to figure out what had happened and couldn't figure it out. After further analysis of the web sites and the web servers that they were on it was determined that their firewall was blocking access to the robots.txt file which in turn was causing their site to be removed from the index.
The firewall software by SonicWALL Inc. doesn't allow access to the robots.txt file because it considers it a security violation. In actuality I can understand why it does this since one normally puts files or directories in it's robots.txt file that surfers should not be allowed access to. If your host is running software by SonicWALL Inc. they need to allow outside access to the robots.txt file so the search engines can have access to it. All 3 major search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN need access to this file if it exists in order to spider a web site.
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