I made a wordpress based website for a client. After it was finished I submitted the site on google as I always do with all other sites – put a google webmasters generated .html file in the website root and made a sitemap.xml.
The site was not showing up during the first week, so I resubmitted the sitemap. Same thing again after 2 weeks.
A couple of days ago I noticed that the client was exploring the wordpress administration and accidentally check “block my site from search engines” – which added the <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> in the head tag.
I removed that now, and resubmitted the sitemap. My question is – will I get penalties for resubmitting the sitemap and how long do I have to wait for google bot to index this site?
Thank you for your time…
You’ll not get any penalities for resubmitting. Google doesn’t worry about how many time you submit a sitemap.
For the wait time, no one can tell you when Google will crawl again your website. It depends on several factors but, as a general rule, you can think that Google crawl more often those websites that update frequently their contents and create frequently new ones.