Blogs not showing up in search results
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My blog is an embedded Google map showing current cosponsors of HR459. In fact, that’s what its called. HR459 Cosponsor Map (also one for S202). No matter what search terms I use on WordPress.com, my site doesn’t show up. If I get general, like “HR459”, other sites show up. But when i search more specific terms, like “cosponsor map” i get no results at all.
Is it something I have turned off, or is WordPress really that bad at retrieving search results?
I did this same thing last year and had a huge number of visitors based on tag searches. this year i get no referrers from wordpress search. What gives? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Without a link to the blog in question nobody can even attempt to give you accurate help.
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Sorry about that. It was listed in a drop down when I wrote the previous entry, so I thought it would be displayed automatically.
The blogs are:
http://hr459map.wordpress.com/
http://s602map.wordpress.com/ -
See here please:
http://ismyblogworking.com/hr459map.wordpress.com
Your blog is indexed by Google (2 results).
Your blog is indexed by Bing (1 results).http://ismyblogworking.com/s602map.wordpress.com/
Your blog is broken. You need to contact Staff for help with it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/If you are using wordpress.com search then do take note of this:
Also, keep in mind that the search engine only indexes the body text of blog posts, pages, and comments. The blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/
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Thanks for the info. I knew it was showing up on Google and Bing, but didn’t know why it wasn’t showing up when searching from wordpress.com. Now I know.
Also, S602map is broken because i fat fingered the bill number. It’s S202.
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“Also, keep in mind that the search engine only indexes the body text of blog posts, pages, and comments. The blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/”
So where do tags come into play? I tagged my post with all the buzzwords that are relevant, but they don’t show up when searching them?
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WOrdpress.com doesn’t include the tags in their search probably to minimize tag spamming.
It used to have a MAJOR effect because links from the tag pages used to be Follow links. Now they’re no follow links.
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Yes, that’s what I found odd. I did this same thing lin 2009/2010 with two other WordPress blogs, and those had a high volume of traffic being refereed from WordPress.com search.
When I wasn’t getting that this time around, it led me here to find out why.
Thanks again for everyone’s input. -
My hits dropped by two thirds when they made that change. It was the source of a LOT of googlejuice.
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