My blog page isn't ranking in Google

[tonyklu]

Hi,

I noticed that my blog page on my site isn't in Google when i search for full URL link http://www.asggutter.com/blog/

instead i see page that isn't even working asggutter.com/sitemap.xml

screen shot http://screencast.com/t/6OVFLwL8nTL

How i  can i fix that.

Thanks

[RyanKent]

Your site does not offer any obvious reasons as to why the blog is not being indexed. I suspect you may have made changes in the past 30 days to resolve an issue. Is that correct? If not, Google should index your blog page within 30 days. I am concerned the page offers no original content, but the blog article you wrote in December is not indexed either. Have you made any recent (past 30 days) changes to the site?

You have a large robots.txt file. I would recommend replacing it with a blank one. I am not a fan of blocking bots with robots.txt. The bad bots don't respect robots.txt and the good ones typically do not cause a problem. You can set your server to throttle bots so they cannot consume too much bandwidth. Even if you caught 50 bots there are potentially thousands of other bots out there.

While you do not have to submit a sitemap.xml file, since you already have the file indexed why not provide a current sitemap.xml file?

You can also use Google Webmaster Tools to add the page directly. From the site's dashboard, Health > Fetch as GoogleBot then enter the URL (blog/). Next, click Fetch then choose to submit the page and linked pages to the index. The process can be as quick as an hour or take days. Keep in mind Google does not guarantee to index any page but I expect this to be the fastest way to address your concern.