Google site indexing

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  timfromwales · Member · Oct 21, 2015 at 8:43 am

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  I have noticed that Google is only indexing a fraction of my blog posts?

  It seems to have dropped from a few hundred to only 6 in the last year – I have been posting regularly.
  Can someone help?
  Is it to do with the chosen themes?

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

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 21, 2015 at 9:06 am

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  Theme should not be an issue

  Google shows 1,100,000 entries for your site – where are you seeing the small index number?

  https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftimfromwales.wordpress.com%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=Site:timfromwales.wordpress.com

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  timfromwales · Member · Oct 21, 2015 at 9:15 am

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  Google Fetch?

  shows only 6 pages indexed – this is data from google from May this year. The columns show the date, indexed, blocked and removed. Its been dropping rapidly over the year.

  5/17/15 115 0 0
  5/24/15 95 0 0
  5/31/15 84 0 0
  06/07/2015 79 0 0
  6/14/15 73 0 0
  6/21/15 61 0 0
  6/28/15 60 0 0
  07/05/2015 46 0 0
  07/12/2015 43 0 0
  7/19/15 38 0 0
  7/26/15 43 0 0
  08/02/2015 43 0 0
  08/09/2015 40 0 0
  8/16/15 38 0 0
  8/23/15 15 0 0
  8/30/15 14 0 0
  09/06/2015 12 0 0
  9/13/15 10 0 0
  9/20/15 10 0 0
  9/27/15 10 0 0
  10/04/2015 9 0 0
  10/11/2015 8 0 0
  10/18/15 6 0 0

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  timfromwales · Member · Oct 21, 2015 at 9:17 am

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  I have noticed I don’t get Search engine hits any longer.

  I know this could be keyword and content issues (I don’t usually worry about it as its just for fun) but to see none is very odd.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 21, 2015 at 9:28 am

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  Some general guidelines are below – there are others that are better with search engines than I am – maybe they will take a look – if you are putting new original content up things should not go down much – I have noticed that Google and others change their algorithms from time to time and that can have an effect (good or bad) on your site and traffic

  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/

  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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  timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2015 at 10:39 pm

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  I have noticed I don’t get Search engine hits any longer.

  Have you read this support doc? https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
  The bottom line is we cannot help with your positioning in the SERPs (search engine page results).

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 23, 2015 at 5:46 pm

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  Hi, I can see you’ve been getting clicks from Google search results, so everything is functional at least, even if it needs more optimization. Try the resources @auxclass and @timethief shared. Cheers!