appear in search engines

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  orphandoll · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 2:26 pm

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  I was wondering…because I searched my blog in google and yahoo but it doesn’t show my blog or the topics in my blog. How can I appear in search engines? thanks for your help:]

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 2:46 pm

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  We need a link to the blog please.

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  louster · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 4:02 pm

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  Can I horn in here with a related question? Is that considered rude internet manners? Just trying to be efficient. Anyway,
  after making the page for verifying with Google, is it necessary to keep the page? Any harm in deleting it?

  Thanks,
  L

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  aktsa · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 4:36 pm

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  try to advertise your blog through various stations like blogadda and other advertising

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  wpvstp · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 5:07 pm

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  @louster
  Yes, you need to keep it, because Google crawls your site regularly. If the page isn’t there, it will generate a verification error with Google.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 pm

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  @louster, what you can do is make the google verification thing into a post and then backdate it to sometime around the beginning of your blog and that way it will not show up in the pages widget or top navigation.

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  louster · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 6:54 pm

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  O.K., thanks @wpvstp and @thesacredpath. What I had done was create the verification page, then with the pages widget made it not show up on the blog.
  Hmmm, does that possibly make it invisible to Google? That would explain the low traffic on my site. Well, that and the lack of entertaining or informative content. ;-)
  Thanks for the tip, I’ll go do the backdating right now.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 7:01 pm

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  No, the page is still there, it just isn’t listed in the pages widget. Google can still find it just fine.

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  louster · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 7:13 pm

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  Thanks again, thesacredpath. I couldn’t figure out how to turn the page into a dated post, so I was about to start over and re-verify with a backdated post. Hiding with the widget is much easier.

  :-)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2009 at 7:17 pm

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  You’re welcome. For future reference, to backdate or future-date a post, click on the edit link to the right of “publish immediately.”

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  orphandoll · Member · Jun 14, 2009 at 3:48 am

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  the site is…www.fashioncube.wordpress.com

  I already tried the webmastertools with google. I created the verification as a page and turned the page to private is that ok?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 14, 2009 at 4:18 am

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  Actually no, the page has to stay public since Google will check for it when they crawl your site.

  What you can do is to actually make the verification into a post instead and then backdate it so that it is at the very end (oldest) of your posts. http://support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

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  orphandoll · Member · Jun 15, 2009 at 1:26 pm

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  oh ok…but then the url will change…will that affect the verification?

  for ex: the url was like this when it was published as a page: http://fashioncube.wordpress.com/google0be60b70814b3484-html/

  then when I made it into a post it’s like this:
  http://fashioncube.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/google0be60b70814b3484-html/

  will it interrupt the crawling process of google to the site?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 15, 2009 at 2:46 pm

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  As far as I know as long as when they scan your blog they find it, it should not be a problem, but just in case, go back to Google webmaster tools and check the verification again.