Ensuring site appears on Google
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Hi, I would like to find out how I can make my site searchable on search engines. I’ve already turned my privacy settings to public. However, when I go on google and search the website address or even the title of my posts, I can’t find it. Anybody able to help? The website address is kdramaanalysis.wordpress.com. I’ve tried searching ‘kdramaanalysis’ on Google and I can’t find my site at all.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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
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/ -
Note that the site is being indexed https://www.google.ca/search?q=https://kdramaanalysis.wordpress.com/&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=XbEkWLTmFcThjAP1qJtQ
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Hi timethief, thanks for the assistance. I just verified my site on Google to see if they will help.
I realised that when I search “kdramaanalysis”, my site does not turn up at all. However, only when I search “kdramaanalysis.wordpress” then my site turns up. It’s unlikely that people will be searching for such specific terms though. I’m wondering why this is so, because I do have other wordpress sites and they do not require me to search for the entire web address. All I need to do is search for the blog title and everything turns up.
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For what it’s worth, when I search Google for “kdramaanalysis” your site is the first on the list. It’s probably as @timetheif said, it just takes Google some time to decide how to index your site.
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Thanks supernovia. Strange then because when I google kdramaanalysis, I still don’t see my site at all. Shall wait and see how Google indexes my site. Thanks once again!
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