How long will it take?

[aygabtu]

I accidentally blocked googlebot from my site two days ago and saw a 20% drop in traffic. This morning it became obvious there was an issue and I tried some search terms and I wasn't showing up on google search. I then realized I must have blocked them and found the IP and fixed it.

Any idea how long until google puts me back on search and will I be back in my previous positions right away?

[dburk]

Hi aygabtu,

It could be anywhere from a few hours to a few months. It all depends on how many high PR backlinks you have to the pages that are delisted. If you want to speed up the process add a few backlinks for each page that was delisted, then use an XML-RPC pinging service to ping the new backlink URLs.

[aygabtu]

Thanks for the reply...I have notice google-bot has been on my site this morning, so they are hitting it. I also submitted my sitemap again to them.

I am still surprised that they wouldn't shoot me an automated email. It should be obvious to them that my site is up because google-analytics is picking up the traffic. Also since they were getting a 403 error, it should be obvious that the site is up and chances are that their IP was accidentally blocked.

It was blocked for about two days. I would hope that it would be back in the search in a day or two. Oh well...live and learn....

If anyone has similar experience, I'd really like to know how there situation turned out.

[grangonzo]

Originally Posted by aygabtu

Thanks for the reply...I have notice google-bot has been on my site this morning, so they are hitting it. I also submitted my sitemap again to them.

I am still surprised that they wouldn't shoot me an automated email. It should be obvious to them that my site is up because google-analytics is picking up the traffic. Also since they were getting a 403 error, it should be obvious that the site is up and chances are that their IP was accidentally blocked.

It was blocked for about two days. I would hope that it would be back in the search in a day or two. Oh well...live and learn....

If anyone has similar experience, I'd really like to know how there situation turned out.

Just relax. If you are adding content the return will be faster than fast...

[simonbuzz]

as everyone said it could take a long time...

[Jon Potts]

Originally Posted by aygabtu

I am still surprised that they wouldn't shoot me an automated email.

Google? Haha. They will only contact you when there is a problem that affects them or if they want to sell you on advertising.

It is a webmasters job to watch their online entities, that is why you caught it so fast. It shouldn't be so bad though.

[Mick Meaney]

Originally Posted by aygabtu

I accidentally blocked googlebot from my site two days ago and saw a 20% drop in traffic. This morning it became obvious there was an issue and I tried some search terms and I wasn't showing up on google search. I then realized I must have blocked them and found the IP and fixed it.

Any idea how long until google puts me back on search and will I be back in my previous positions right away?

I did the same thing a few years ago and blocked all search engines to one of my sites... took a few weeks for me to notice.

It only took a few days for them to come back and start indexing the site again, so don't worry too much, it'll pick up again.

[JamesGw]

Just make sure you keep building backlinks to your sites to help increase the crawl rate. You can also manually increase it in webmaster tools.

[aygabtu]

Just an update...last night around 1am I noticed my pages were back on google, although not as high as previously. So it took about 18 hours to get back in, now it is just a question of how long until I am back in the same positions I was.