Site Not Indexed

Please check your robots.txt and make sure your site map is indexed in Google webmastertools.
The best way to index your website is get a solid backlink from an authority website in your niche.

I've checked the robots.txt in Webmaster toold and the sitemap is indexed. I could do more bakclinks but surely at this point just to get indexed shouldnt require this? I have links from YouTube and a few social bookmarking sites too. Usually my sites get indexed without doing anything within a few days im finding this strange!

It seems strange I indexed my new website in Google by just digg it. May be your server is slow or the server IP is blacklisted (just a doubt only). Please try to promote your website in more social bookmarking sites , it can attract spiders to your website.

Ahh I think I may have found the problem in the robots.txt file: my other sites all have

Allow: /

but this site has

User-agent: *
Disallow:

If that is the problem how come it is like that my default? I have never had to edit this file before!

So to allow google and everything else it should read:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Is that correct?

Ok I have changed the robots.txt file. I have checked my stats my host stats arent compiled yet as its just been a week. Can I check to see if the googlebot has visited with Google analytics? I cant seem to find where I can check...

google webmaster console and do all test in crawl access. Give it a few minutes or hours to see the results

Thanks... I checked under webmaster tools and it is not reporting any errors but showing activity:

Pages crawled per day:
High: 8
Average: 5
Low: 2

That's a good sign It probably just means it's going a little slow for some reason.

It can act a little weirdly although if you are getting no crawl errors and the Google bot is visiting your site, you should be okay.

Ok then cheers guys, I know it can take time just wanted to make sure there wasnt a specific reason for not indexing as generally my sites appear really fast. I will just give it time.

Thanks for all your help!

You can submit all the sitemap.xml's that you want, ping the search engines all you want, but Google and the other engines are going to crawl and "maybe" index your site whenever they feel like it. They typically aren't in that big of a hurry to crawl new sites unless they start stumbling onto links to your new site when crawling.

Honestly, I've never understood why people put forth so much effort building/submitting sitemaps and pinging to get indexed. Typically, their site is not going to rank for squat unless they have built links.

So you get indexed. It has done you no good other than to make you feel good that you can search for site:yourdomain.tld and see your site there. But no one else will be able to find it unless maybe your pages show on page 1 for a few days due to the Google honeymoon.

You're much better off spending that same time and effort you spent getting indexed to simply build links and let the engines discover your site the old fashioned way.