Blog not showing up when you search for my page

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  101katie · Member · Mar 5, 2017 at 2:33 am

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  When myself and others type in my blogs URL it does not show up?? My url is http://www.carolinaclass.wordpress.com. Any Ideas why it may not be showing up

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2017 at 2:41 am

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  https://thecarolinaclass.wordpress.com/ is the correct URL. You have been here for only 3 hours and you have so little content that is has not been indexed yet.

  Search engines aren’t attracted to sites that are page based. Sites that are post based where publication is frequent are more attractive to them.

  re: search engine discoverability

  It can take weeks for search engines to index your site content. Please read this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/ so you know we have no control over search engines positioning or appearance in the SERPs (search engine page results).

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com hosted 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.

  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

  To gain search engine attention, I recommend that you start publishing posts (not pages) https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ frequently. That’s because it can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.

  WordPress.COM SEO resources that you will want to consult are:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/six-seo-factors-you-should-know/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/

  re: categories and tags
  Selective assignment of relevant categories and tags to your posts can attract more views. (Categories and tags can be assigned only to posts, not to pages.)

  All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
  Search for categories
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=categories+
  Results https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

  Search for tags
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=tags
  Results https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/

  See also: https://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/
  The combined total of categories and tags on any post must not exceed 15 or it will not display on Categories and Tags pages and in the WordPress.COM Reader. After removal of the excess categories and/or tags note it may take several days for your posts to begin displaying there and in the Reader.

  Also, note that posts do not display in the Reader forever. Posts only display in the WordPress.COM Reader for 60 days.

  re: social networking
  See these support docs:
  Sharing https://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/
  Publicize https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/

  re: wordpress.com blog subscriptions

  All that’s required to follow any blog hosted by wordpress.COM is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.

  Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp

  Additional information:
  You can create a Subscribe page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following