Google help please
 

I logged into Google Webmaster Tools and found a bunch of messages that Googlebot has been having problems reaching my site. I haven't noticed my site down or loading slow and nobody else has reported anything.

Here's the graph for http://www.bodsforthemods.com

What should I investigate?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/.../googlebot.jpg

I had this too, wondering if it's anything to do with Google itself being "unavailable" recently ?

Still hasnt loaded for me.
I had to log in to post this message and Im still waiting.

Loads really slow for me near Dallas,Texas

bodsforthemods.com loaded from Australia quick through my isp, but when i try it through pingdom.com via Dallas, Texas, USA, it will not load and times out after a minute.

EDIT: It is loading veryyy slow now through my Aussie isp.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/btp1...orthemods.com/

http://i40.tinypic.com/344v9m0.jpg

as silly as it sounds, make sure you dont have their IP blocked either through some CMS plug, robots.txt or htaccess. had this happen before always worth the double check as often times the easiest solution is typically the right answer.

Got 2 "Unable to connect to the database" sql errors, had to refresh a few times then it loaded quick for me in Europe.

ugh - i think it's just a coincidence but the site is having connectivity issues tonight.

from my hosting company:

Look like google bot was marked as spam bot and banned.
Your mrtg graph looks fine and i disable these ban lists.

:Oh crap

Fark, not working or connecting within reason.

site is slow as shit here in Chicago on comcast.

what a stupid mistake.

How the fuck can they accidentally block googlbot!!

working fine here..

now they're saying they didn't block googlebot - that in my htaccess were a bunch of foreign IP addresses I had put in there, all IP ranges from Russia and other suspected hacker countries. The site kept getting hacked and that did stop it from happening. So their theory is that Google ended up acquiring and using some of those IP addresses and that's how googlebot got blocked.

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