Webnauts I applied all the changes you suggested. Thanks for pointing that out to me, I never thought of checking the sitemap for validity, coz I thought gsitecrawler would do that for me, well I guess this just proves that it doesn't. It's strange though, Google already downloaded the invalid sitemap and reported its status as OK.

Why doesn't the sitemap validate with the 0.9 schema, even though Google recommends this schema for valid sitemaps? https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...emapValidation

The order you suggested for robots.txt makes better sense, I agree and it can't do any harm changing it anyway.

Yes, adding content to the main page will help and there I'm guilty as charged, didn't have much time to add new content to the site lately, so I know that is one of the reasons why the rankings are going so slow, but I first want to get past this indexing hurdle to see if the changes I made to the current pages were worth the wile. Without the updated content in Google's index, I can't do much to see if the changes worked. I'm only afraid of doing a lot of work adding new content only to discover that some of the new techniques I'm using aren't working that well and I have to do everything over again. At the moment it is a process of trial and error until I get it right and then implement these methods with all the new content added to the site.

Oh and Veikoh thanks for pointing out that there is no entry for the sitemap itself, so I added that as well. (I think I forgot to add the .xml file type to gsitecrawler's settings, so that's probably why it missed my sitemap link).

Wow, its amazing to see how easy it is to look over the simplest of things. Actually makes me feel pretty stupid to see that I'm not even doing the basics right. LOL!

Now lets wait and see what happen. Thanks for the help.