blog theme or title doesn’t google
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I love the using my blog as a creative format, but unless someone knows my username they won’t find my blog googling.(i.e. Librarian Portfolio or MLSforHire). Suggestions?
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Are you hosted here at wordpress.com? If so, post links to your blogs. If you are self-hosted, then you need to be asking your questions over at wordpress.org. We use a different multi-user version of the wordpress software here.
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I am hosted at wp.com. I have some links in my blog, but I’m not sure how that helps.
I have considered using the blog title as a user name instead.
Thanks
Sheryl -
How long have you been blogging? How often do you post? Have you checked to see if under dashboard > options > privacy you are set to allow search engines to crawl your sites?
If you have just started out it may take 4 to 6 weeks for Google to crawl your site. You can also submit it directly to Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html and it may speed the process up a little.
The reason I was asking for the URL’s for your blogs was so that I could look and see how long you have been blogging and how many posts you have done. Right now I’m shooting in the dark and just giving you general possibilities.
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unless someone knows my username they won’t find my blog googling
What makes you say that? What are your results if you google something you have written?
I would try a google search for you myself, but you have given us nothing to go on here. If you give us your blog’s URL, we can look at it then google something contained within it.
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Sorry. I just put together my first blog this summer for my final grad school project, thus I don’t know all of the ins and outs of blogging. Librarian Portfolio is at sherylevans.wordpress.com
The blog underconstruction (just started) MLSforHire is at sherylbaberevans.wordpress.com
Again thank you for your patience with this newbe
Sheryl -
Hmmm. There does seem to be a problem here. I googled the sentence “This portfolio will be about what I have learned in the SLIM program and what I hope to accomplish in my career in librarianship.” from http://sherylevans.wordpress.com/ , and Google didn’t come up with you at all. Very odd for an entry that is 3 months old.
Check under Dashboard->Options->Privacy for your blog visibility choice. Do you have “I would like my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Sphere, and in public listings around WordPress.com.” or “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors” selected? You should have the first one selected by default, but i’m wondering if the setting got messed up somehow and it went to the second one.
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Thanks, I went to dashboard>options>privacy in http://sherylevans.wordpress.com/ and “I would like my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Sphere, and in public listings around WordPress.com.” was selected by default. I went ahead and selected update options, who knows, maybe it needed to be refreshed or I never updated option in the first place…? Do you think it will show up in google now or is there something else I am missing?
Thanks again -
maybe some of our resident SEO (search engine optimization) experts can chime in here with some ideas of what might be happening…
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With only 2 blog posts over several weeks the engines are not going to bother indexing it.
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Blog promotion – getting the attention of the search engine spiders
It is said that Google’s directory comes straight from the DMOZ Directory so look into getting your blog site listed in it. The DMOZ is commonly known as the Open Directory Project and it has strict guidelines as to who is listed. http://www.dmoz.org/about.html
Submission info can be found here. http://www.dmoz.org/add.htmlYou should *not* submit your site to Google, Yahoo, and MSN more than once every 30 days. MSN will seldom visit a website unless invited by submission. Yahoo frequents more than MSN but less than Google but will dramatically increase visits after submission.
http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htmlAlthough Google says that manually submitting your pages to their index is unnecessary, they have an interface for you to do so. http://www.google.com/addurl/
But as atthe404 points out if you do not post frequently then don’t be surprised if it takes months for Google to acknowledge your site’s existence.“If your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, Google, Netscape Search, Yahoo Search, and hundreds of other sites. We make updates of the data available weekly, but each partner has their own update schedule.”
HTH :)
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Ok. Post regularly is my best bet. I will also look at getting placed in dmoz directory.http://www.dmoz.org/about.html
Thank You Everyone
Sheryl -
Submit your site to http://www.submitexpress.com/. Submit it to ONLY the top 40 search engines. They’ll ask you to paste their code on your site. You will then get a few emails asking to confirm your submissions. And also claim your blog at Technorati and place Technorati’s buttons and such on your sidebar. And make sure to ping your blog when you’re done updating for the day.
To get search engine attention submit your blog to all of them and post regularly.
Join forums and online groups that are on the topics you write about.
Join social networks.
Leave comments on other blogs.
Happy blogging. :)
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