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How much time are you giving Google between iterations? For a site with a relatively low Pagerank, it can take a while for Google to take note of your new site or changes to it. Did Google index your old site OK? How are MSN, Yahoo, and Ask treating you? /rich On 7/3/07, Bill Park <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > Recently we implemented a new site for the Plant Biology department. We > used WordPress as our CMS. I installed this Google Sitemap Generator plugin > for WordPress so that the site would get properly indexed by Google. After > getting many complaints about the site not being found as a search result on > Google I decided to have the plugin rebuild the sitemap. Once I did that I > realized the permissions on the 2 .xml files were not correct and were not > writable. So I 777'd those 2 sitemap files used by my plugin and it rebuilt > the sitemap but I was still not having any luck with Plant Biology showing > up from a search query. > > Next I got on Google Webmaster's Tools to verify the site. I uploaded the > HTML file as instructed by Google and verified the site flawlessly. Next I > also manually uploaded the sitemap to Google and let it verify that, it > verified and said it submitted roughly 278 URLS (which seems about right.) > > The next day I checked on webmasters tools again to see what Googlebot was > crawling and it was returning "robots.txt unreachable" and then would > postpone the crawling of our site. Assuming robots.txt files were simply > for exclusions only I hadn't created one. After seeing that error message I > decided to make one. The robots.txt file I created was permitting of all > agents to crawl all aspects of our site. After creating the robots.txtfile and checking back with webmaster tools multiple time it looks as though > the Googlebot has many no further progress. > > I was curious to see if anyone else had ever experienced anything like > this or could offer me any insight into how I can get us on the map quickly > with Google and other search engines despite having the robots file that > permits everything full access to the site. > > Thanks. > > Bill Park from Plant Biology. >