Google search not providing any query hits
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I have looked at some of the support info about this, and a couple forum posts.
My blog, http://ltuasoo.wordpress.com/ , is one month old.
I have NEVER gotten any search engine hits. My Dashboard says “No search engines have sent you traffic yet.” I have just now logged in to Google webmaster tools, and it confirms under “Top search queries” a big fat zero.
The IsMyBlogWorking.com site says everything is fine, and “Your blog is indexed by Google (34 results)”. Actually, the “34 results” shows 39 pages.
On the Google webmaster tools page Diagnostics – Crawl stats it looks to me like my blog is being read. A lot of pages were read a month ago when I created most of the pages. For example, “Pages crawled per day” was 154 for the first day of crawling about a month ago. (But I don’t have 154 pages – I had 35 when I started and 39 now.)
But if I use Google to try to search for some term that is unique for one of my blog articles, it does not show my article here at WordPress. It typically shows my article at the one or two other sites where I may have posted that respective article, but not the copy posted here at WordPress.
One thing I’m curious about is that one of my articles is NOT on the list of 39 pages that are supposidly indexed. It is an article that mentions Google many times! http://ltuasoo.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/googlish/ An I being silly and paranoid, considering the possibliity of Google censoring web pages about Google?
Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Thanks,
RennieThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It can take up to six weeks to be indexed by Google. Have you followed the tips here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/looking-my-blog-in-google?replies=6Also, be aware Wp.com search is not as good as Google search.
And yes, you are being paranoid. Google’s not really bothered about your blog; they’d much rather censor Techcrunch!
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Thanks for your reply, raincoaster.
But does it make sense that Google’s “crawl stats” seem to indicate that they are reading pages on my site, but that these pages are not being indexed? Is that what you’re saying?
Thanks,
RenniePS. Feeding my paranoia, I’ve just noticed another one of my articles that is NOT on Google’s site search list – it’s about Muhammad.
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As raincaoster has said it can take 4 – 6 weeks for your posts to be indexed and appear in the SERPs. There are 10 factors that can expedite the process. See > http://www.onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
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One of the reasons Google is crawling pages you don’t seem to have is they consider every page or post that is accessible from every different link to be a different post. So consider the multiplication effect of categories and tags and archives…But each of those is being CRAWLED separately but not INDEXED separately, because they are not really separate pages.
Keep blogging. I don’t think Google cares about gods either, or they wouldn’t love me so much!
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Just saying … I see that you are using only a single category “USA politics” and no tags at all on your posts. Also your stories don’t include backlinks to posts in authoritative blogs at the top of that niche, nor does your blogroll contains links to them. Well, blogging is competitive and catching the attention of search engines in “USA politics”, is a huge niche, with many authoritative blogs at the top of that niche so IMHO you are dropping the ball. Expecting to find your posts in the SERPs on the first 10 pages when you fail to backlink, blogroll, and fail to assign relevant categories and tags effectively is unrealistic.
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timethief – thank you for your suggestions, and for your time in looking into my situation.
But one thing I don’t think you understand is that it’s not that Google doesn’t have my articles in the first 10 hits, or first 10 pages. It simply does not have my pages here at WordPress AT ALL.
If you do a Google search for “Lady Cecelia Montgovern-Baggley”, you get a grand total of two hits. They are in a story I wrote 2 1/2 months ago, and have posted three places. Google shows the other two places, but not the page here at WordPress.
Anyway, thanks again to you, and to raincoaster. I’ll try to make some of the changes you recommend, and I’ll try to be patient and see if something happens. I should maybe have logged in to Google webmaster tools previously, but now I’ve done that, so here’s hoping.
Thanks,
Rennie -
In the blogging world links are what it’s all about. Links are an indication of relationships. Links to your sources in your posts and blogroll are important for these reasons: verifiability, acknowledgment, examples, context, building authority within a niche, gaining search engine attention, and increasing targeted traffic to the blog in question.
Assigning relevant Categories and/or Tags to posts is important because they are the keyword search terms your content will be indexed under by search engines, and retrieved by when potential readers with the same interests look for posts on specific topics.
Re: “Lady Cecelia Montgovern-Baggley”
(1) How many other bloggers backlinked to that post of yours in posts of their own?
(2) How much activity in terms of hits and comments did that post draw?
If it had created lots of activity then the search spiders would have been dancing all over it.The way to remedy your situation is clear. Get busy and learn how to blog effectively so your posts garner backlinks from other bloggers, comments, and your blog starts appearing in the blorolls of other bloggers in your niche. Doing those things will result in drawing search engine attention.
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