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

Mon Feb 17 17:48:42 UTC 2014

Hi,

On 17.02.2014, at 18:35 , Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Had a similar problem with the Google Webmaster toolkit sending me these mails for farmsubsidy.org which moved to farmsubsidy.openspending.org.
I believe that the trick is that Google needs a canonical URL and the verification only counts for the one domain.

Anyways, I fixed this by dropping the old site, adding the new one with a new verification. You might want to try this, I don't think you lose any data (good luck).

Cheers
Stefan

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