Blog to website
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We have a blog that comes up in google but not searchable by keywords.
Can I change to blog to a website?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Every theme has a detailed theme description page and like this one at https://wordpress.com/theme/twentyeleven and that’s where set up instructions for it and the live demo site link is found.
A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.
A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.
What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.
Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being page based to being post based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read >
Build Your Website in Five Steps
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/Making a Business Website
https://en.support.wordpress.com/making-a-business-website/Using WordPress.com to Create a Website
https://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/See also Five Leads for Self-Help with WordPress.com https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/help-with-wordpress-com/
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We cannot assist with any search engine issues.
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
Search engines aren’t attracted to sites that are page based. Sites that are post based where publication of posts, not pages is frequent are more attractive to them. 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/Also, note that posts do not display in the Reader forever. Posts only display in the WordPress.COM Reader for 60 days.
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When I visit this site https://eventsbymasood.wordpress.com/ I notice that none of your posts have categories assigned to them.
Please see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
Set the default category https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#setting-the-default-category
See also go back and edit posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#go-back-and-edit-posts
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