Google (GWT) says my homepage and posts are blocked by Robots.txt

[FrederikTrovatten22]

I guys.. I have a very annoying issue..

My Wordpress-blog over at www.Trovatten.com has some indexation-problems..

Google Webmaster Tools data:
GWT says the following: "Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt." and shows me my homepage and my blogposts..

This is my Robots.txt: http://www.trovatten.com/robots.txt
"User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

Do you have any idea why it says that the URL's are being blocked by robots.txt when that looks how it should?
I've read a couple of places that it can be because of a Wordpress Plugin that is creating a virtuel robots.txt, but I can't validate it..

1. I have set WP-Privacy to crawl my site
2. I have deactivated all WP-plugins and I still get same GWT-Warnings.

Looking forward to hear if you have an idea that might work!

[stubby]

Is Yoast generating another sitemap for you?

You have a sitemap from a different plugin, but Yoast can also generate sitemaps, so perhaps you have 2 - and one of the sitemaps lists the items that you are disallowing.

[FrederikTrovatten22]

Thanks for your comment Stubby and you are probably right.

But the problem is the Disallowing and not the sitemaps.. And based on my Robots.txt should everything be crawable.

What I'm worried about is that the virtuel Robots.txt that WP-generates is trouble.

[FrederikTrovatten22]

I have tweak around with an XML SItemap-generater and I think it works. I'll give an update in a couple of hours!

Thansk!

[Anthony_NorthSEO]

Hey Frederick,

Here's your current meta data for robots on your home page (in the section):

name="robots" content="noodp, noydir" />

Should be something like this:

name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />

I don't think it's the robots.txt that's the issue, but rather the meta-robots in the head of the site.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Anthony

[moderator's note: this answer was actually not the correct answer for this question, please see responses below]

[stubby]

I am going to disagree with the above.

The command <meta < span="">name="robots" content="noodp, noydir" /> has nothing to do with denying any access to the robots.</meta <>

It is used to prevent the engines from displaying meta descriptions from DMOZ and the Yahoo directory.  Without this line, the search engines might choose to use those descriptions, rather than the descriptions you have as meta descriptions.

[FrederikTrovatten22]

You are absolutely right.

The problem was that a plugin I installed messed with my robots.txt

[stubby]

Do you know which plugin (or combination) was the trouble?

I use a lot of wordpress, and this is very interesting.