| I came across a strange problem while I was | | | | I Googled for this and found a link which was talking |
| reviewing webmaster tools. I signed in with my google | | | | about exactly the same issue I was having. After |
| account and started reviewing my settings. I chose the | | | | creating my new robots.txt file by using ANSI encoding |
| website I validated before and clicked Site | | | | type and checking it from this link problem solved. Well |
| configuration>Crawler access respectively. | | | | at least seems like that. I have been checking Google |
| In the Test robots.txt tab, I saw interesting errors that | | | | and it is still showing me the same error. I think it is |
| was saying: | | | | going to take some time to reflect new changes. |
| Line1:Â ?User-agent: *Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Syntax | | | | This is the link I found the solution for this specific |
| not understood | | | | problem: |
| Line2:Â Sitemap: Valid Sitemap reference detected | | | | This is the link of the web site which gave me the |
| Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â No user-agent specified | | | | opportunity to check my robots.txt file: |
| I checked my robots.txt file again and again. There | | | | You can find the related blog entry in the following link |
| was no question mark in Line1 of the robots.txt file | | | | as well. |
| which google claims there is. | | | | Have a great day. |
| I create a new robots.txt file by using notepad in Vista | | | | -Update: |
| Home Premium operating system and uploaded this | | | | After waiting some time the change happened as it is |
| new file into my production server. I waited for about a | | | | expected. |
| day and checked again. The same error was still there. | | | | |