Help! how can others find my site?!?

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  dannyballsub · Member · Oct 6, 2015 at 1:15 pm

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  I joined recently to help with my writing and after working on my site for a while I realized none of my friends could find my site through any search engine. What do I do?

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

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  brotskytv · Member · Oct 6, 2015 at 1:24 pm

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  You have to link up your site to Google Webmaster and also in setting – -> Reading –> Site Visibility –> Select – – > Allow Search Engine to index my site.

  For linking Google Webmaster:

  http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-your-wordpress-site-to-google-webmaster-tools/

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  dannyballsub · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 3:41 pm

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  Im sorry this link wirks but a minute later im thrown off it is there another link or something?
  Going directly fails too. For me anyway.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 3:45 pm

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  I locate a Google search entry here site:danielbauldwinwordpresscom.wordpress.com/ 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. https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  For more information on expediting search engine indexing of your site read > http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google

  I recommend using the step by step tutorial linked to the bottom of your Admin page https://learn.wordpress.com

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/start/