robots.txt / site not being indexed

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  chefchriscolburn · Member · Oct 5, 2013 at 3:41 am

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  I’m getting the following message in google and bing search results “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt”

  i’ve submitted sitemaps to both google and bing and I still get this message.

  my blog settings are set to “Allow search engines to index this site.

  how do i solve this problem

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 5, 2013 at 4:18 am

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  Did you just change the Allow settings recently? If so it can take a while for search engines to update their caches

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  chefchriscolburn · Member · Oct 5, 2013 at 5:13 am

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  I did, that must be the problem. I’ll give it a few weeks and see what happens. thanks.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 5, 2013 at 5:15 am

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  New sites take 4 to 6 weeks for search engines to index them and that is only if there is something worth indexing on them