Once you have logged into your Google Webmaster tools account, click on any of your listed / claimed domains to get to that domain's dashboard on Webmaster tools. If you look to the left-hand sidebar of the screen you will see the typical menu (see image below). You will want to click on Crawl to open that drop-down menu and from there select Fetch. Your screen should look something like this (initially yours will be mostly blank):

As you can see from the image above, we have gone through the trouble of already trying to "Fetch as Google" the homepage of this domain... and wouldn't you know it - Google can't fetch it! WHOOOPS! Do you think this might be part of the reason why this domain's search rankings have plummeted? That may or may not be the case... but with results like this, it might not be a bad place to start.



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mijareze Premium
I eould like to have seen what to do if you cannot crawl and fetch because your site has blocked the bots. My site has not been verified and is blocked due to Javascript and css I believe. I've had a heck of a time with this situation but I am not very tech saavy. Any help will be much appreciated!
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bjdluna Premium Plus
What can you even do with a situation like that? Are you certain it is blocked by Javascript and CSS? There's got to be a way to fix that.
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mijareze Premium
I added filters to my websites to filter out the spam bots in Analytics. It worked great but now that several months have passed I noticed they are back. There is a website that offers the free service. You have to update by blocking out the new url's belonging to the spam bots.
Ed
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TopAchiever Premium
I would've said this is an incomplete tutorial. Surely you can suggest some solution for the Denied items?
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Quasar_wpg Premium
Now I just need to figure out how to fix the things it doesn't see. I have some scripts and images it says robots.txt denied. Do these things matter if the rendered page looks alright?
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onefineham Premium
That would depend entirely if it is important (to you) that Google sees and/or indexes those items which are missing or blocked.
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Quasar_wpg Premium
I disabled my social plugins and most of the script errors went away, all but 2. I guess the extra button and widget scripts don't matter too much to rankings? The two that were left related to JQuery something.
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DoubleTap Premium
Thank ya' Barry... now it's just a matter of understanding the codes and knowing what to do with 'em! (-;
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This new tool looks promising. Google is improving day by day.
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bjdluna Premium Plus
I just don't like the fact that you kind of have to guess at what's wrong and try something then that doesn't work, etc. No wonder I'm scared! I'm scaring myself!
Barbara
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