: Google indexed my home page incorrectly: How can I fix it? I finished my website and launched it, I think I had a problem with my robots.txt - so I changed it to look like this: 03/08/2012

@Sherry384

Dave is right on the money (virtual +1 as my score is still too low)

Please Do the Following


Go to Webmaster Tools
Do a "Fetch as Googlebot"
once fetched, a "Submit to Index" option will appear.
When a question pops-up, select "This and all linked URLs"


This will speed things up, but don't expect any instant results.

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@Mendez628

You can now use the 'Fetch as Googlebot' tool in Google Webmaster Tools as a way to persuade Google to re-crawl (or crawl for the first time) a page - googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/submit-urls-to-google-with-fetch-as.html

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@Shelton105

I would like to add that it is not necessary to add a robots.txt file on your website to get it crawled. I found many people having misconceptions about the robots.txt file. Search engine bots will crawl your website even though they don't have the robots.txt file.

If you don't want to show some content to search engine, however, robots.txt is required.

In your case the following steps will result in your website being crawled quickly:


Submit your website to relevant directories
Bookmark your website in leading bookmarking websites like (digg, stubleupon, reddit)
If you are having good marketing budget, write press releases about launch of your website and publish on reputed PR website like, prweb.com etc.

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@Alves908

# 03/08/2012
# Allows all bots


You should comment out (prefix with #) the first line also.

Google should refetch your robots.txt file quite quickly (within a few days, depending on the cache headers of your site), but it could take a while longer for your site to be reindexed. Unfortunately you're probably just going to have to be patient.

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