robots.txt Mediapartners-Google question

[Gert Leroy]

hi, i made my robots.txt for Dutch Martial Arts .com (which is a wordpress site)

purpose:
Adsense bot has to have access to all pages
Googlebot has some restrictions

Robots.txt:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

User-agent: *

# disallow all files with ? in url
Disallow: /*?*

Disallow: /wp-content/themes/church_30_dutchmartialarts/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /cat/

seems pretty understandable..
however, when i do the test in Google webmasters tools, they say me the pages that are blocked for googlebot, are also blocked for the adsense bot. What is wrong with the robots.txt?

e.g. DMA nieuws & promoties | DutchMartialArts.com is also blocked for the adsense bot..

[wige]

Try without the asterisk after Mediapartners-Google. As I recall, you can't have an asterisk there.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by wige

Try without the asterisk after Mediapartners-Google. As I recall, you can't have an asterisk there.

Yes Wige. I can confirm that you are right.