NEXT UPADTE Going BIG FATAL “Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files"

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lucidsoftechpvtltd

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Jul 29, 2015

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Today! I have received a mail in GWT. i.e. "Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files" CAN ANY BODY TELL? IS GOOGLE GOING TO FOCUS CSS & JS. While Recently I have read a blog where it?s clearly mentioned that GOOGLE DOES NOT Read JS FILE

 

M4XW3LL

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Feb 5, 2013

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A lot of my sites got that warning. Still looking into it.

 

JoachimvR

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http://searchengineland.com/google-search-console-warnings-issued-for-blocking-javascript-css-226227

Basicly it happens when you have them blocked with robots.txt.

 

BuildMoreLinks

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Jun 7, 2012

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strange so now Google does not want any folders to be blocked through robots.txt?
seriously now I understand why they dropped do no evil tag.

 

JoachimvR

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BuildMoreLinks said:

strange so now Google does not want any folders to be blocked through robots.txt?
seriously now I understand why they dropped do no evil tag.

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You can block files with robots.txt, just not the css/js files.

Tbh it's not even that weird, as Google is all about user experience and they want to look/see how your site is served to your visitors.

 

Boriss

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I don't think it's an update, but this is just my opinion.

 

JoachimvR

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Boriss said:

I don't think it's an update, but this is just my opinion.

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It's not an update, Google just started to give out warnings in WMT for it now, that's all.

 

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Bismarck

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Jul 17, 2015

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have the same warning but only for a single website

 

Wilson Grant Fisk

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I believe it started with the Mobile update:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
http://searchengineland.com/3-actions-get-ready-googles-mobile-search-update-215662