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Your Firewall Could Get You Delisted

Your Firewall Could Get You Delisted

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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Chris Padavick
(Visit Chris's Website) My name is Chris Padavick and I am the President of Hieroweb Interactive. Hieroweb Interactive has been online since 1992 and we develop, design, maintain and market web sites on the World Wide Web. We combine solid graphic arts design with excellent web design principles to achieve an eye appealing design. Other services that we provide are logo design, e commerce design, 3D animation, application design, flash design, search engine optimization, email blast design, web hosting and marketing. We develop a brand from the ground up starting with the design of a custom logo, stationary, advertising pieces and web site design. View our clients list at: http://www.hiero.com/clients.html and see some of our award winning designs.

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