After entire site is noindex'd, how long to recover?

[EricPacifico]

A programmers 'accidentally' put "name="robots" content="noindex" />" into every single page of one of my sites (articles, landing pages, home page etc). This happened on Monday, and we just noticed today.

Ugh...

We've fixed the issue; how long will it take to get reindexed? Will we instantly retain our same positions for keywords? Any tips?

[AdoptionHelp]

Wow that's quite a goof!

Just remove the noindex tags and submit your site for indexing in Google Webmaster Tools. I think you should regain your positions in the SERPs once you're indexed again.

[EricPacifico]

Right? Yeah we've done that, I just want to make sure my expectations are set correctly on a site-wide reindex. The realistic repositioning timeline, etc.

[PaulRogers]

One of my colleagues did something very similar a few weeks ago to a few key sections of a website and it only took around 4 hours for the main pages to be reincluded in the index. I don't know about a whole site, I would advise doing everything you can to get different sections re-crawled (getting links, social sharing, pushing google to index pages in webmaster tools etc). Good luck Paul

[EricPacifico]

Did you see the same results in positioning as you had before they were yanked from the index?

[PaulRogers]

The positioning was the same when the site was reincluded.

[Svetoslav]

The first thing I would do is login to my webmaster tools account and submit a reconsideration request. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?pli=1 this goes a long way with Google. Just explain everything as it happened and confirm that the problem got fixed.

I hope that helps!