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hello,
can anyone help me. my blog home page is not getting crawled by the google adsense crawlers. it is showing crawl errors for my home page. can anyone help me in this issue. my blog is www.codershunt.com

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Start by confirming what the AdSense crawler actually sees. AdSense uses a special crawler that identifies as the user‑agent "Mediapartners‑Google", and that crawler can be blocked by robots rules or by server/CDN/firewall rules. Check your site’s robots.txt at the root and make sure the AdSense crawler isn’t being disallowed. (developers.google.com)

Quick tests you can run right now: use Search Console’s URL Inspection (Live Test / Request Indexing) to see what Google fetches, and mimic the crawler locally with curl to compare responses for a normal browser UA vs the AdSense UA. Example commands:

curl -I -A "Mediapartners-Google" https://www.codershunt.com/
curl -I -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)" https://www.codershunt.com/
curl -I -A "Mediapartners-Google" -L https://www.codershunt.com/  # follow redirects

Look for differences in the HTTP status (200 vs 404/403) and redirect chains; that tells you whether the server is returning a different result to bots. (developers.google.com)

If the bot is still getting 404 while browsers see 200, inspect your access logs for requests from Mediapartners‑Google (or Google IPs) and verify those hits are genuine via reverse/forward DNS (Google documents how to verify crawler IPs). Common causes: WAF/CDN rules, IP allowlists, .htaccess/user‑agent filters, or misconfigured rewrites that only trigger for certain UAs or host/protocol combinations. (developers.google.com)

If robots.txt is the issue, allow the AdSense crawler explicitly (the AdSense team has recommended adding a Mediapartners‑Google allow group), then re‑run the URL Inspection Live Test and request reindexing. If changes don’t fix it, temporarily disable security plugins or CDN rules and re‑test, and open a ticket with your host. Google’s docs on robots and AdSense crawler behavior are good references. (developers.google.com)

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Member Avatar for pritaeas

it is showing crawl errors for my home page

Which errors ?

Member Avatar for srinath reddy

it is showing a 404 error that my blog home page www.codershunt.com/ is not getting crawled. but it is opening properly if i open it manually.

Member Avatar for pritaeas

Have you tried without your robots.txt ?

Member Avatar for srinath reddy

no what is it ? how to use ?

Member Avatar for pritaeas

You have it in your web-root. Try removing it, if there is no difference, just put it back again (so make a copy first). For more info google "robots.txt".

Member Avatar for JorgeM

You may want to establish a webmaster's account with Google, and submit your site. You can then get more detailed information about Google's crawlers and other stats.

www.google.com/webmasters/

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