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  ousiaparfums · Member · Dec 18, 2013 at 5:47 pm

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  Hi,

  I have a few posts up, keywords are there, but I have not a single hit from a search engine. I know I need to “publicize” but why would I have not one single hit from a search engine?

  Thanks for the feedback…

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 18, 2013 at 5:53 pm

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  It takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. What attracts search engines is frequent publication of unique content in posts (not pages), content that cannot cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

  Lastly note that we cannot assist with search engine issues. They are between the blogger and the search engine. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

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  ousiaparfums · Member · Dec 18, 2013 at 6:00 pm

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  Thanks.

  I know that I have visited many blogs where the content is not updated several times a week, are you saying that it is necessary to update that often, in order to be picked up..?, or just that I would be higher up in the ranks?

  Thanks for clarifying.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 18, 2013 at 6:41 pm

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  If I don’t publish 2-3 times weekly in my blog founded in 2007 then my traffic decreases as would be expected. However, traffic won’t dry up completely because the blog is well established as it’s 7 years old and because I update my posts with new information.

  See here for the content Google has indexed. If you do not publish Posts (not Pages) with unique content in them frequently then it will take longer for the search engines to index your content and if you choose to have Pages and not Posts then the traffic to your blog will always be low. It’s posts that get attention. It’s posts that those using search engines are looking for. It’s posts that get backlinks.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 18, 2013 at 7:39 pm

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  I teach workshops and in the workshops we create brand-new blogs and then do four posts immediately. Those blogs are indexed by Google within minutes. The more posts you do, the faster it happens.