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Hey Matt Antonio! I just wanted to clarify that this error isn't specific to the robots.txt file and can also indicate that we are being blocked by X-Robots Tag, HTTP Header, or Meta Robots Tag. Usually this error does indicate an actual issue with the site we are crawling rather than with our crawler. The other Q&A post you mentioned is definitely an exception to that rule, but that issue was resolved in August 2014 and has not occurred again. I hope that clears things up a bit. We are always happy to look into the specific issue causing the crawl error with a site, so I do agree that contacting the help team for these types of issues is often a good idea. Thanks, Chiaryn

Hey Steve, Thanks for writing in!  I am sorry you are experiencing some issues with your Google Analytics, looks like we are in the process of having this issue looked at on our end to see what is going on.  While it is unusual because of the frequency that it is happening, unfortunately whenever you deal with open authentication like what we have going on with Google Analytis, you will run into situations where the connection is sometimes not the most reliable. Please know that we are doing everything we can to have this looked at to see if there is something going on.  Anyone who is also experiencing this can give us an email at help@seomoz.org and we will do our best to resolve it ASAP Thank you again for writing in, you should hear from us soon! Best, Peter SEOmoz Help Team.