| Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | Grandmaster Flash | 9/20/11 5:22 PM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES My site's URL (web address) is: http://rick.ly/nkyiXj The above url is not my site but the issue is relevant to all webmaster implementing the +1 button and perhaps to Jenny Murphy since the i |
| Re: Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | JohnMu | 9/21/11 2:45 PM | Hi Rick As mentioned on http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1140194&hl=en if you put a +1 button on your pages, we assume that you're ok with us accessing the pages, even if they're blocked by a robots.txt file. In general, |
| Re: Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | Grandmaster Flash | 9/21/11 3:28 PM | Thanks John! |
| Re: Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | Christian Oliveira | 9/22/11 2:26 AM | @JohnMu, I think I am not understanding this the right way, so I hope you can clarify my doubts :) In your FAQ, you include this: "Will +1's from my site show up in search results? If a user +1's a URL on your site, the Google search result snippet |
| Re: Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | Christian Oliveira | 9/22/11 2:54 AM | Also, : * What happens if we place a <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow"/> and add a +1 button? * What happens if the URL is in a directory blocked by robots.txt AND removed from Webmasters Tools and add a +1 button? Would these URLs get |
| Re: Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | Jenny Murphy | 9/26/11 6:32 PM | Hi Christian, These are lots of good questions! :) Let me see if I can sum up a concise answer. If you target a page with a +1 button we will fetch that page when the +1 button is clicked. This is done regardless of the crawler directives. We do th |
| Re: Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | Christian Oliveira | 9/27/11 1:42 PM | Hi Jenny, Thank you very much for your answer! Unfortunately, I think this is not *exactly* answering my doubts. Let me write again the question trying to be a bit clearer: - Can a URL blocked to google crawlers by any method (with the robots.txt, |
| Re: Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | JohnMu | 10/4/11 7:11 AM | Hi Christian Regarding your questions: - In terms of usability, if we have two URLs for the same listing ordered by different criteria, and we place a +1 button on both of them, indicating which one is the canonical, and the user click on +1 and shar |
| Re: Google +1 button working on robots.txt blocked page | Christian Oliveira | 10/6/11 12:58 PM | Hi John! Thanks for answering :) Regarding your answers: |