Confusion! Help!
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I have made up my webpage and thought it was on the web, but it isn’t. What did I forget to do to get it published? Please let me know, preferably in detail so I can get it out there. Thanks.
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This is an empty site https://brunoscollectorsnook.wordpress.com/ devoid of any blogger created content that everyone with internet access can view.
The fact that the site contains no published content gives rise to the question what is there on it for search spiders to index? The answer is nothing.
Every theme has a detailed theme description page. This one is at Every theme has a detailed theme description page. This one is at https://wordpress.com/theme/oxygen and that’s where set up instructions for it and the live demo site link is found.
All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/ where we have a search box.
These support docs are useful for getting started:
Get started https://en.support.wordpress.com/start/
Quick Start https://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
Basic tutorial http://learn.,wordpress.com
Using the theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
Tutorials https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/
Set Up Your Blog in Five Steps https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/ -
Your site content, once published and indexed by search engines, will appear in Google search, unless you make the site private.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/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.
It’s important that you read this support doc closely http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts
The rule of thumb is to assign to your posts the least, not the most, combined number of only relevant categories and tags that accurately describe the individual post content. And, you never assign the same keyword or keyword phrase as both a category and a tag.
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