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I have just received an email alert from Google Webmaster Tools.

 

"http://mysite.com/: Googlebot can't access your site

Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 81 errors while attempting to access your robots.txt. To ensure that we didn't crawl any pages listed in that file, we postponed our crawl. Your site's overall robots.txt error rate is 71.7%.

You can see more details about these errors in Webmaster Tools."

 

My site has been under maintenance for a few days while I upgraded and add a few modules.

 

I have searched for help on what to do with googlebots while the site is in maintenance mode but I got completely confused.

 

Can anyone help with a step by step procedure to stop the errors, and how to re-enable googlebots once the website is live again?

 

I have PS 1.6.0.9 with a custom theme.

 

Thanks in advance..

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