Accidentally De-indexed My Site, How to Get Back?

[sett]

Hi All,

Yesterday when I was checking my index pages in Google then i found that my website home page was de-indexed by Google. Also, my all rankings were disappeared on Google.

I checked the source code of my home page and found <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> was appearing in the source code. I am not sure how it was added to my home page. I immediately removed this meta tags from the code.

I have re-submitted the xml site map of the site in GWT.

Just wanted to know till when my page can re-indexed in Google.

What are the other steps should I take to re-index my home page in Google at earliest.

Also, how long it will take to get my rankings back on Google.

Thanks in advance

[TheMadScientist]

Usually they pop right back where they were within a week of removing the noindex from the tag in my experience, so my advice is just wait ... It's a 'nothing fancy necessary' to fix it thing.

[goodroi]

I am more interested in how the meta robots was changed. You might have a security issue on your hands. You may want to keep checking to make sure only the right people have access to your site and that no other accidents were made.

[Hoople]

Was this a Wordpress based site that someone recently installed some form of SEO plug in?

A few plug ins are known to use NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW as a default.

Also be sure to check your robots.txt file too.