Sitemap Submission

[RobSchofield]

I was wondering if anyone has any insight into Sitemap submission with Google. I submitted a XML Sitemap for my new site at the end of October. Since then GWT says it is pending. l have made a few changes to the site and added some new pages so l decided to submit an updated XML sitemap. This was about a week ago and is also still pending.

Does anybody know how long this process should take and if it is the reason why the site hasn't started ranking for any of our targeted search terms as yet?

The site is www.theremovalistsguide.com.au

[crackingmedia]

Hi Robert

It shouldn't take that long. It's difficult to know why.

Do you have any warnings about anything that may have caused it to still be pending in your Google Webmaster Tools? Is it possible that access to it is blocked in some way?

Peter

[RobSchofield]

Hi Peter,

There are no messages in GWT. I can't imaging it would be blocked in any kind of way. I have a link to tge sitemap on the footer of every page and and I'm not using a robot.txt file yet.

Is there something I'm missing? Is there any kind of contact for this issue?