Google penalty because of excluding the bot temporary by robots.txt?
One of my websites was mistakenly excluded from crawling by a wrong entry in the robots.txt. When I noticed the drop in visits it was already too late. The search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) had removed the website already from their index.
I have changed the robots.txt immediately, but until now the website is not back in the index. I have checked in Googles Webmaster Tools and everything seems to be OK. I know it can take a while until you show up in the index, but from my experience it never takes that long.
Therefore I was wondering whether Google might have some penalty for websites which did not allow their bot to access the website. Maybe that it takes simply far longer until it can be reincluded? Did someone make the same experience? Any answers?
Google Gears does not work with Firefox on Ubuntu 7.04
I was trying to get Google Gears working on my computer. Not that I would really need it, but I like the idea to be able to read my feeds offline. That comes really handy when you are travelling and you do not have any internet connection. You could easily get up to date by reading through the latest posts on your favourite blogs and news sites.
However, when I click on the link Google is offering ("Offline New!") in the upper right corner of Google Reader it opens a window, gives me the opportunity to install the plug-in. The plug-in installs, but after restarting Firefox the "Offline" links still shows up and I can not download the feeds to my computer.
Is anyone running Google Gears with Firefox and Ubuntu 7.04? Any idea how to fix the problem?
[UPDATE|22.11.07] Google Gears works now on my notebook! Read the story "Finally Google Gears works on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)" to know more.