Upload of incorrect robots.txt

What a screw up - any permanent damage?

[TinkyWinky]

Can anyone help - found out yesterday that developer in moving servers and hosting environments forgot to upload the correct version of the robots.txt for our site that had over 15k pages listed 2 weeks ago with Google.

The one uploaded blocked all robots from every page!

We now have 5 pages listed on google and none with any titles, decription or cached dates.

Anyone hazard a guess ro have experience of this and how long it takes to get most the pages back on to google?

Anyone else know if we have no permanently damned ourselves to months in the wilderness...

Help -------- rapidly losing hair on this one.
TW

[edited by: TinkyWinky at 3:33 pm (utc) on Nov. 23, 2006]

[goodroi]

imho it depends on how much link juice you got and how many times googlebot was given the bad robots.txt. based on what you describe i dont think you'll have too bad a time.

worst case scenario you can start an affiliate program for balding heads :)

[Matt Probert]

I did just the same....

Didn't take long, just a few days for the new robots.txt to be retrieved and indexing to restart.

No worries.

Matt

[TinkyWinky]

Cheers guys - looks like I have a few pages back already.... just 12,000 odd to go ;)