Can’t find my own posts
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I made a blog on wordpress.com and created a few test articles. Then I tried searching for stuff using the search box in the top right of wordpress.com. I searched for my username, article titles, content, etc and it doesnt find anything. What gives? I dont want to write stuff if no one can find it.
Google doesnt find anything either, but I think I understand why that is. Google needs time to crawl new pages. But wordpress shouldnt need time because its on its own server, right?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The search function at WP.com could use some tweaking, but in this case I wouldn’t blame it. Your blog has a total of about thirty words of content. Virtually any blog here will outrank it on searches for any of the terms used in it, because they use those terms more often.
Blog more. Then you’ll rank higher.
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It’s my understanding that wordpress.com has multiple servers in multiple locations in multiple timezones. Therefore the test posts you are looking for may not appear instantaneously after publishing them.
These entries in the support documentation may be of interest to you:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/It’s my experience that when one verifies their blog with the big 3 search engines and then consistently creates high quality, unique content that’s appropriately optimized and has been assigned to appropriate categories and tags, the time it takes for their posts to appear in the SERPS (search engine page results) is shortened. That activity tends to attract the search spiders and the indexing begins earlier on than it does when bloggers fo not post regulalry and do not optimize their posts and/or assung appropriate categories and tags to their posts.
It’s also my experience that when the posts they create are authoritative because they do contain unique high quality unique content that other bloggers will backlink to them thereby getting search spider attention and expefiting the indexing process.
I hope this helps you.
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Is this the blog you are asking about?
http://mrcote33.wordpress.com/You have 3 posts, with essentially no useful content, all categorized as “uncategorized.” For example, “Hello this sucks” is not likely to be looked at by any search engine. Not interesting; also posted yesterday and today only.
Google is not magic. Write some interesting posts and categorize your posts appropriately. Or tag properly.
Even if you start to have interesting articles, it could take weeks (GAK—even months!!!? ) for search engines to find you…
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I understand how search engines work. What I don’t understand is why when I type a unique article title like “Blue Monkey Balls” word-for-word, it doesn’t get picked up by the wordpress internal search.
I didn’t necessarily expect my post to be the #1 search result. The problem is that it’s not there at all. Is there a time lag on the wordpress internal search engine?
I don’t think the problem is about length, uniqueness, or attractiveness of the content, as most of you have suggested. When I run a search specifically designed to pick up my article titles, my username, tags, or wierd phrases in the content, I get no result. Why?
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Wait, there I am.
Well, none of you could answer the damn question. Go eat some Blue Monkey Balls.
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“…unique article title like “Blue Monkey Balls” word-for-word…”
Blue Monkey Balls
December 20, 2009 by mrcote33
Hello this sucks:a lot
very much??
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THANK YOU.
The article itself is of no consequence. Guess what? I’m trying to figure out this website so I can post all my awesomeness.
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You’re correct in that the article itself is of no consequence. What MIGHT have consequences is insulting volunteers in the forum, on whom you rely for the answers you don’t have.
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