Getting your blog to show in search engines

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  notbeeneverywhereyet · Member · Mar 15, 2016 at 5:50 am

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  My blog has been active for 2 months now, and it is set to visible to search engines. I have also verified it on Google specified by the instructions on https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  however it is still not discoverable on any search engines. I do not expect it to be anywhere near the first page of search results however it is not discoverable at all. I know this because I searched an exact quote from one of my posts and it said nothing that matches it was found. What am I doing wrong?

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 15, 2016 at 6:27 am

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  try

  Search Engines and Building Traffic

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
  https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/

  How to get more page views for your blog

  The folks at WordPress.com have written an e-book about it! http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/grow-traffic-ebook/

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  notbeeneverywhereyet · Member · Mar 15, 2016 at 7:48 am

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  Hi,
  Thanks for your response, however I don’t think it is correct, it isn’t traffic I am looking for as I know I just started so it won’t be that popular at all yet. So the links on sharing with friends or social media isn’t that relevant
  What I am looking for why my blog isn’t discoverable. I copied a line of text from my oldest post (as it takes 4-6 weeks for it to be ‘discovered’) which I posted in the end of December, and put it in quotation marks and searched it using google. If it was remotely discoverable, it would show a result with a link to that post of my blog, however nothing came up. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong because normally unless something is private, non-existent or requires logging in, then direct and exact quotes will find very specific results.

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  mark · Member · Mar 15, 2016 at 9:30 am

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  Your blog has 3 posts, the last being in December last year. As it is now March the search engines might be considering that the site is abandoned. If you post regularly they will visit regularly and you will feature in their results.