How can we get a site reconsidered for Google indexing?

[d25kart]

We recently completed a re-design for a site and are having trouble getting it indexed. This site may have been penalized previously. They were having issues getting it ranked and the design was horrible. Any advise on how to get the new site reconsidered to get the rank where it should be? (Yes, Webmaster Tools is all set up with the sitemap linked) Many thanks for any help with this one!

[ShaMenz]

Hi d25kart,

You will find the reconsideration request form in Google Webmaster Tools - you will need to be logged in to the account for the site in question. Make sure you read all of the instructions carefully before submitting.

You can also use the "Fetch as Googlebot" feature in Webmaster Tools to check whether there is any problem with crawling specific URLs. The feature is under Health in your Webmaster Tools menu. If a URL is successfully fetched, you can then click "Submit to index" to add it (and linked pages) more quickly.

There are limitations on the number of submissions you can make in this way per month, but it is definitely worth utilizing this method to check for issues that might be preventing indexing and to add pages to the index quickly.

Hope that helps,

Sha

[d25kart]

Perfect, I really appreciate the response.