How to make Google index your site? (Blocked with robots.txt for a long time)
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The problem is the for the long time we had a website m.imones.lt but it was blocked with robots.txt.
But after a long time we want Google to index it. We unblocked it 1 week or 8 days ago. But Google still does not recognize it. I type site:m.imones.lt and it says it is still blocked with robots.txtWhat should be the process to make Google crawl this mobile version faster?
Thanks!
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Hi There
You need to unblock the site in your robots.txt and then go into Google webmaster tools and "Fetch as Google". Check out the image I attached for you.
I usually Fetch and Render then Submit to index. It's usually very quick to index.
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If you have made sure that your robots.txt is now unblocking it, go to Google Webmastera and select you site for "Fetch as Google" and once fetched sekect submit to index. Usually the oage should get indexed in a day.
if your page is still not accessible, during the fetch process google should error out call that the page is inaccessible.
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