Domain name not in Google search

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  sarahkingsleylondon · Member · Aug 11, 2015 at 9:37 am

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  I have no technical knowledge so be gentle! I have created a free WordPress website and then paid for the name (via WordPress) to be converted to my choice of domain name (see above). However, if you enter my website name into Google search it doesn’t come up. Please help! Should I have used a different company for my domain name? I did that with another website and had no problems.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  micawbr · Member · Aug 11, 2015 at 11:51 am

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  Hello,
  It can take 4-6 weeks for a new site such as yours to show up in Google. In addition to posting regular content on your site, here are some other tips for getting listed in the search engines: https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

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  sarahkingsleylondon · Member · Aug 11, 2015 at 5:43 pm

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  Thanks micawbr. It seems to be there now – perhaps I just needed to be patient!

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Aug 11, 2015 at 5:52 pm

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  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/
  However, 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

  As micawbr it can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. Be aware that what attracts search engines is unique content in posts (not pages) that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly.

  I can offer you 10 tips for expediting search engine indexing found in this post http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google

  I recommend using the step by step tutorial linked to the bottom of your Admin page https://learn.wordpress.com

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
  and
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  and
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also linked to on the bottom of your Admin page.

  Your theme set up instructions are here https://wordpress.com/themes/nucleare/ and the live demo site is here https://nuclearedemo.wordpress.com/