SEO chaos from changing robots.txt file in Wordpress site

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Published on 2010-03-16T15:48:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 17:21 UTC
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Hi there, I recently edited the robots.txt file in my site using a wordpress plugin. However, since i did this, google seems to have removed my site from their search page. I'd appreciate if I could get an expert opinion on why this is so, and a possible solution. I'd initially done it to increase my search ranking by limiting the pages being accessed by google.

This is my robots.txt file in wordpress:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

Sitemap: http://www.instant-wine-cellar.co.uk/wp-content/themes/Wineconcepts/Sitemap.xml

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