A new submission to Google, even with utilizing the sitemap
tool
will not likely show up in google searches for several weeks,
and
many new site submissions take several months to show up to
get
out of Google's "sandbox". To my knowledge there is no way
to
speed this up.
I'd be interested in what others have found.
-Russell
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.txt file 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.