Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her
by sergiotapia on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:30PM
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My url is: http://www.smitecamp.com
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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her
by 300bps on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:51PM
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Your robots.txt is nothing but comments. It doesn't specify the URL of your sitemap. It does have a blanket disallow for all user agents for the root of your site. It is commented out (like everything else) but if that was ever uncommented that could be your problem.
I guessed your sitemap URL since it isn't in your robots.txt. You have every single page listed as being updated hourly. Even if that is true I wouldn't put that in there.
Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @08:00PM
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And what is your relationship to https://www.hirezstudios.com/smitegame/home ? I ask because it seems like you share a lot of material. Game studios get a bit twitchy about that when it isn't part of their PR plan.
Hmm, if that were the case I'd expect it to show up in the Transparency report though.
Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her
by johnmu on Friday December 13, 2013 @04:33AM
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(I work at Google on webmaster issues)
Your site has a manual spam action probably based on something a previous owner had on it ( https://web.archive.org/web/20110202220759/http://smitecamp.... shows scraped Yahoo Answers content). You can see that in Webmaster Tools under Search Traffic / Manual Actions. Submitting a reconsideration request should do the trick.