Blog posts not showing up in search
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So a couple of my ‘pages’ show up in search results “ABOUT” “CONTACT”, etc., but slim-to-none of my blog posts.
They are all set to public visibility, as is my blog generally (has been for awhile via the Settings function). I’ve searched for the actual titles (in quotes and not in quotes) and haven’t found them. I.E., try searching WordPress.com for “Red Line Justice”. Here’s the piece: https://cultofamericana.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/red-line-justice/ . Nowhere to be found, right?
Please help me get my posts out there!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi! So, I did a Google search for “red line justice” using the site: qualifier to very your post is indeed in Google’s index and will come of for those keywords. Type the following into Google to do that: red line justice site:cultofamericana.wordpress.com
Your article of the same title came up as the first result, so you are getting indexed. It’s just likely that a lot of other sites are ranking better than you for that particular term so your blog post is way down in the search results.
Optimizing your posts to perform well is kind of a tricky thing and is beyond what this forum can really do. But, there’s a couple of documents WordPress.com recommends to get you started.
Good luck climbing those Google results, it’s challenging but well worth it! :)
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NOTE: In case you are referring to WordPress.com search know that the WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/
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The second answer was the one I was looking for. Thank you to both of you for replying though; very helpful!
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You’re welcome. :)
In essence your focus is on blog promotion and increasing traffic so read on.
It takes time and effort to build a collection of unique content, to promote it, and to attract followers. See these for Staff tips on increasing traffic:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content posts (not pages) ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
Social Networking Blunders > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/09/10/social-networking-blunders/
Despite the ubiquitous statements to the opposite effect, autoposting, rather than manual posting unique snippets to different social networks results in fewer people reading your full posts on your site.
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