RESULTS: So Google re-crawled my site at some point since I fetched it through Webmaster Tools. My page in the search results now has my title and meta description back and I bounced back to page 15. Page 15 isn't too abnormal, as before I accidentally blocked myself I had been bouncing around from page 11 to 18.

Thanks for our input and hopefully this will help someone in the future.

Thanks for the input. Where do I fetch my URL within GWT? Any ideas on how quickly I'll regain my rankings? Will I have to make up some ground with my SEO work, or will Google just place me back where I was once they re-crawl my site?

Last week I uploaded my site and forgot to remove the robots.txt file with this text:

User-agent: * Disallow: /

I dropped from page 11 on my main keywords to past page 50.

I caught it 2-3 days later and have now fixed it. I re-imported my site map with Webmaster Tools and I also did a Fetch as Google through Webmaster Tools. I tweeted out my URL to hopefully get Google to crawl it faster too.

Webmaster Tools no longer says that the site is experiencing outages, but when I look at my blocked URLs it still says 249 are blocked. That's actually gone up since I made the fix.

In the Google search results, it still no longer has my page title and the description still says "A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more."

How will this affect me long-term? When will I recover my rankings? Is there anything else I can do?

Thanks for your input!

www.decalsforthewall.com