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The website is not being indexed by google.

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Something may be up with the robots.txt permissions for the forum, because I can't search anything more recent than a month old using any search engine. The robots.txt sitemap file http://cdn.attracta.com/sitemap/1063702.xml.gz seems to be empty. Can someone take a look? It would be nice to be able to use search engines to look up content.
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Interesting, thanks! Ron, any comment?
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Joël of the FoS wrote:Interesting, thanks! Ron, any comment?
Just that I'm acknowledging that I've seen this, and that I'll get to it sometime when I can.

Note that the forum itself has a pretty decent search function if you need it. Would be nice for it to show up in google, but it's kind of low on my priority list right now.
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The bot cometh! Well done!
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:? I will take all the credit for it, but in reality, I did nothing. how do you know?
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Gonzoron of the FoS wrote::? I will take all the credit for it, but in reality, I did nothing. how do you know?
Robots.txt now has content (albeit from 2015) (Here) and the google bot logged in, and I confirmed it did a re-indexing and cached a recent version of the forum. QTR #26's content now appears on google too if you search.
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