Accidentally blocked whole site with robots.txt and struggling to regain rankings.

[go2africa]

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[Andy.Drinkwater]

Time is about the only healer here. It would be pointless doing a re-inclusion request as the site hasn't had any action taken against it. It is only a little over a week since this happened so I would say that this will come back when Google gets round the site again.

You could always post something in the Google webmaster help forums and see if you get a Google employee to notice it, but even then, I doubt they will be able to do anything more.

Andy

[go2africa]

Thanks Andy! Sadly waiting is the toughest thing to do in this situation but it seems to be the most common solution.

Mark

[Andy.Drinkwater]

I can understand that Mark. I really can't think of anything else that will benefit you right now. Time is a great healer - even from Google!

[SebastianCowie]

Hi Mark,

I think we've all been in your situation at least once in our careers as an SEO. As you've mentioned previously you've resubmitted the site via GWT etc so there's not much else you can do.

I would however recommend filing a reconsideration request if you're happy with your backlink profile and feel you would pass a manual inspection of the site. As the reconsideration request feature isn't just for sites that have been penalised.

Case and point, I had a client with 2 very similar sites targeting two seperate countries, he accidently blocked off one of his sites with a robots.txt and the site wouldn't rank properly for 2 months and the issue was only rectified after a reconsideration request.

Good luck