robot.txt file stopping me from getting ranked on google

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  drivensnow11 · Member · Nov 7, 2015 at 3:06 pm

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  I have already clicked the swith to show visibilty on search engines but keep getting blocked

  # This file was generated on Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:53:14 +0000
  # If you are regularly crawling WordPress.com sites, please use our firehose to receive real-time push updates instead.
  # Please see http://en.wordpress.com/firehose/ for more details.

  Sitemap: https://ghostwitter.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml
  Sitemap: https://ghostwitter.wordpress.com/news-sitemap.xml

  User-agent: IRLbot
  Crawl-delay: 3600

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /next/

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /mshots/v1/

  # har har
  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /activate/

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /public.api/

  # MT refugees
  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /cgi-bin/

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /wp-login.php

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /wp-admin/

  any help appreciated

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

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 7, 2015 at 3:49 pm

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  your robots.txt file is set correctly – you have what looks like a 21 hour old site – it will not search very well as it takes 4 to 7 weeks for a new site to be fully indexed by search engines

  http://ismyblogworking.com/ghostwitter.wordpress.com

  The Disallow you see is normal – no reason for search engines to index your login page etc.