It can take several weeks before showing up on Google results. Does Google crawl your site at all? Do you use Google Webmaster Tools that may provide some hints on what’s going on with your site with respect to Google. BTW, how long has it been since you launched your site?
Thanks for the reply.
Site launched several weeks ago but only tried to overcome the problems at the weekend.
No issues thrown up by Webmaster Tools.
Weird! However, a quick look at your site’s sitemap shows limited URLs. Google doesn’t mind how many pages a site has, though. How many backlinks does your site have? Do you get any visits from those backlinks?
It seems your robots.txt file blocks Google from indexing your site.
@krishna
There is no ‘disallow’ for any spider, unless I can’t see it.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://htf-media.com/sitemap.xml.gz
Regarding the sitemap extension, Google recommends:
Create a text file and save it with a .xml extension.
In other words, .gz could be wrong.
Remove the forward slash after allow and the entire third line and see if it helps (maybe what I understand can be wrong).
Also review this:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449
Thanks all thus far.
I’ve amended my robots & sitemap following your advice. Will see how that changes things over the next couple of days.
