Getting search engines to pick up my site?

  • Hi all, I’m working on pringle.princeton.edu. Up until 4 days ago, under “settings>reading>site visibility”, I had “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” selected. We were ready to launch earlier this week so I switched that to “Allow search engines to index this site”. But, it’s still not appearing on google, and when I type the address itself into the google search box, it comes up with the message: “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt.”

    Do I need to do anything more to get Google to pick it up?

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  • Google doesn’t jsut automatically update your sites listings as soon as you hit that button. It takes time for the bots to re-index your site – and seeing as how your site was blocking them before, it will most likely take longr ofr them to come back as they’ve already seen a “please don’t index here” sign thrown at them.

    The best thing to do is sign up for Googles webmaster tools service and submit your site in there. That will give it the best chance of getting re-indexed as soon as possible.

    https://www.google.com/webmasters/
    https://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/

    And I recommend the Yoast SEO plugin, which will also prompt you to get these webmaster tools in place.

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