Anyone know how long it takes Google to Index new site?

[Wallander]

Could anyone let me know how long it takes for a NEW site to be indexed in Google please? Am having some robots.txt issues and am keen to see if it got indexed. Thanks!

[Keszi]

Hi Sofia,

It depends on a lot of things. I have seen new websites being indexed in 24 hours, but I have seen others which needed almost a week.

If you have Google Webmaster tools, submit your sitemap, Fetch as Googlebot (basically submit to index ). Those steps can speed up things a littlebit.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

[Wallander]

Hi istvan,

Thanks, I submitted the sitemap but got some robot.txt warnings so not sure if it is going to go through ok. I have already removed the robots.txt file so wondering is Google is just slow in picking that up. Guess I will know for sure when/if the site gets indexed.

[Keszi]

We can have a look together. But I need to see the robots.txt in order to have the chance to resolve the problem.

[Wallander]

Thanks!

the domain is http://containerforsale.co.uk ,My host told me to look in the Public HTML file folder for the robots.txt file and just delete it but can't see it in there?

Google webmaster tools is saying there the sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt. (all 7 of them)

This is the display I get from http://containerforsale.co.uk/robots.txt

User-agent *

Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

Sitemap: http://containerforsale.co.uk/sitemap.xml.gz

[Aran_Smithson]

Have you done any social sharing of the website?

Getting your followers to RT links and the like is another great way to get noticed.

[Wallander]

Hi Aran, it's certainly on the list.

Great to see you are making progress with the hangers, I have the same kind of challenges with containers

[KeriMorgret]

Sofia,

What about some content related to unusual uses for cargo containers?

Another idea might be using a cargo container for a personal/business move. If you were in the US, we'd be wanting to talk to you right now! My husband and I are moving from California to Seattle, and he's interested in seeing if we can get a used cargo container, load our stuff into it, then have it dropped off in a driveway or a side yard of a place in Seattle. Some content around that would be interesting, and with how it differs from a regular move (such as needing to worry about the container being titled to put it on the truck), etc.

[Wallander]

Keri,

Love it, I can see you are really getting into this container thing! Seriously, some really good ideas there..I actually cam across a guy on youtube who had made an underground bunker out of a used shipping container and got 1.3 million views and a ton of media coverage!

Good luck with the move!

[Aran_Smithson]

Heres another, I'm pretty sure i heard of a company in the UK (might have been US) that recycles shipping containers and uses them as pre-fabricated building blocks.

ooo...I found something similar on wiki..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_container_architecture

[Wallander]

Thanks Aran - very creative