[openspending-dev] Fwd: [Webmaster Tools] http://openspending.org/: Googlebot can't access your site

[Nick Stenning]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014, at 18:09, Nick Stenning wrote:
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> Rather surprisingly, this appears to have been introduced at:
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>     https://github.com/openspending/openspending/commit/43055a77889efb509985fe9db1236c1cbc5da8ec
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> which would imply that this has been broken for over a year...!?

Unfortunately for that hypothesis, the Google Webmaster Tools implies
it's only been broken since the 12th of December:

http://i.imgur.com/J5X4EZw.png

This would also imply that the proposed "fix" won't make any difference.
Might be worth trying, though.

The only other thing I can think of is that the GWT dashboard is
*specifically* referring to *http*://openspending.org, for which
/robots.txt now 301s to it's SSLed compatriot at
https://openspending.org/robots.txt. The document I referred to in the
last email implies that a 301 should be absolutely fine, though... Odd.

-N


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Nick Stenning
Technical Director, Open Knowledge Foundation