how can someone find my blog on the internet?

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  ryerbn · Member · Sep 21, 2013 at 11:46 pm

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  I have tried and my friends have tried to find my blog and it is no where to be found. how can i change this? please let me know

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 21, 2013 at 11:50 pm

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  Tell your friends this is the URL http://theroadlesstraveled1977.wordpress.com/they can put it into the top browser bar and click to find the blog.

  Note your blogs is new and has only 2 posts. It takes weeks for search engines to index content. What attracts search engines is unique content the cannot in posts that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

  The process we use for verifying free hosted WordPress.com blogs with search engines is found here > 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 provides the search engines with site maps. We bloggers do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/

  Lastly note that we cannot assist with search engine issues. They are between the blogger and the search engine. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

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  timethief · Member · Sep 21, 2013 at 11:51 pm

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  RATS! I made a spacing mistake above. This is the URL http://theroadlesstraveled1977.wordpress.com/

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 21, 2013 at 11:59 pm

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  To add a bit to what @TT said above

  Your two Posts are three lines each –

  It looks like it is some sort of travel / student thing for your friends to keep up without you needing to send emails around (I admin for a friends blog that is used for their retired travels) –

  You need to add the Subscribe Widget to your site so your friends can signup and be sent an email when you make a new Post –

  also set your feed to Summery – Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> For each article in a feed, show Summery – remember to save changes – – this means that only a short summery of a Post is sent out – save the email inbox of your friends

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  timethief · Member · Sep 22, 2013 at 9:16 pm

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  Picking up where auxclass left off, you can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:

  These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
  Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.

  Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.

  Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

  You can customize the contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  See also Inviting Contributors, Followers, and Viewers http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
  Note: As a spammer prevention you are limited to sending out 10 invitations at one point in time. Then wait and send out 10 more.