Why do so many of my hubs have blocked URLs?

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  1. habee profile image82
    habeeposted 14 years ago

    What does this really mean? I've tried to email the HP team and the HP editor, but both emails have been returned as "undeliverable."

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  2. Misha profile image67
    Mishaposted 14 years ago

    Blocked URLs? WTF?

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  3. habee profile image82
    habeeposted 14 years ago

    Hi, Misha. Yep, that's what Google site diagnostics says. It says these hubs are blocked to crawlers.

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    1. Misha profile image67
      Mishaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Holle. OK, could you post an example of a blocked url?

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    2. rebekahELLE profile image87
      rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      does it give any errors they found?

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  4. relache profile image67
    relacheposted 14 years ago

    Usually when someone posts and asks this, Paul Deeds shows up after a while and says HubPages doesn't block Google from crawling any Hubs that are published.  Or something to that effect.

    I've read back over a variety of threads on the same topic, and it would seem it is a strange, transient thing no one has ever truly resolved.

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  5. MyWebs profile image80
    MyWebsposted 14 years ago

    'Blocked URL' - that sounds hubpages.com may have a messed up robots.txt possibly.

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  6. livelonger profile image76
    livelongerposted 14 years ago

    From the FAQ:

    Why are my Hubs being blocked by AdSense because of the Robots.txt file?

    When you navigate to the Site Diagnostics section of your AdSense account, you might see some links to your Hubs embedded in links that are blocked due to the Robots.txt file. Please be aware that most of the time, these are not direct Hub links, but cached versions of your Hubs on sites like googleusercontent.com which block the AdSense crawler (which detects AdSense code even on cached pages) from spidering their cached versions of your Hubs. Since virtually none of your traffic comes from these pages, and since we have no control over other sites, there's nothing we can do, but, more importantly, there's nothing to worry about, either, since this doesn't affect traffic to your Hubs.

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    1. habee profile image82
      habeeposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks mucho, LL! I'm a tech dummy. lol

      Thanks to everyone else who responded, also!

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      1. livelonger profile image76
        livelongerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        You're no dummy - it's complicated and confusing to a lot of people, hence the FAQ entry. smile

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