>configured to block anything that had the word 'bot' as part of its user agent string Yep, that'll do it :) Glad you found it and fixed it quickly! One follo

>configured to block anything that had the word 'bot' as part of its user agent string Yep, that'll do it :) Glad you found it and fixed it quickly! One follow-up thought for you and anyone in this situation: Set up a Google Webmaster Tools account ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ ) and make reviewing it part of the webmasters' daily routine. In this particular case, the Crawl Errors page in the Diagnostics section would have flagged this problem very quickly. A couple of pro tips for Webmaster Tools: 1. Be sure to look at the "date detected" column because it is accurate and somehow people miss it. 2. Set up email forwarding for messages Webmaster Tools sends to you: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=140528 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...