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  simonyoungblog · Member · Nov 21, 2021 at 12:34 pm

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  Hi there
  My privacy settings are set to public, and I’ve had my site for some time, why doesn’t it appear when I Google it?

  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to moderators and staff)

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  amirudra789 · Member · Nov 21, 2021 at 1:36 pm

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  Hello there!

  Search engines can take 4-6 weeks or more to show any newly created sites.
  While not necessary to be included in Google’s index, connecting your site to Google’s Search Console (https://wordpress.com/support/site-verification-services/#google-search-console) can help Google include your site more quickly.

  To know more about SEO please refer to this support page doc here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/seo/

  Regards:

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  kokkieh · Staff · Nov 22, 2021 at 5:48 am

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  Hi there,

  Your site doesn’t appear to be indexed at all, based on this:

  https://www.google.co.za/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fsimonyoungblog.wordpress.com%2F

  But it’s definitely public, you’ve been posting regularly since June, and your site’s robots.txt file at https://simonyoungblog.wordpress.com/robots.txt and sitemap at https://simonyoungblog.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml appear fine to me, so from everything I can see, it definitely should be indexed.

  Can you please try two things for me:

  1) Go to Settings ->General and set your site to private. Give it a few minutes, then set back to public.

  2) Please verify your site with Google Search Console, and once you’ve done that, manually submit your sitemap in that tool. Normally this isn’t necessary for a site to be indexed, but in this case hopefully it will “knock something loose”, as it were.

  https://wordpress.com/support/site-verification-services/

  Your site won’t start appearing in search results immediately once you do this, as it still needs to be indexed, but hopefully it will do the trick.