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Google maps API robots.txt file blocking crawl


I have used Google maps,places,directions javascript API in my web application. Application loads different places based on user input by making ajax call to the google api. Fortunately Google is able to crawl the ajax lately.

When I was checking the URLs in the Googles webmaster tool 'Fetch as Google' feature, the response is like below

blocked resources

Fetch as Google

Here is the google maps api robots.txt file

Google Robots.txt

Is google maps api blocking Google bot? in that case please suggest me what would be approach should I follow to to get the page content?


Solution

  • We took contact with Google Maps Support and they confermed it was a bug at their side! However, no statements were made about when we could expect a fix.