How do my friends find my blog?

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  ptaylor75 · Member · Dec 3, 2013 at 6:33 pm

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  How do my friends find my blog. When they log onto WordPress.com they are invited to create a blog but there is no “search” icon for them to find mine.

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 3, 2013 at 6:39 pm

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  Hi there,
  They type the URL into their upper browser window and click or you email them the active link http://patriciaptaylor.wordpress.com/

  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/

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  timethief · Member · Dec 3, 2013 at 6:41 pm

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  re: searching

  The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

  For Topics (Tags page) searches see http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ This is the syntax http://en/wordpress.com/tags/canada
  See here http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/

  For Google searches use this format and replace “keyword” with whatever word you wish:
  keyword site:wordpress.com/

  Example search string
  Queen Victoria site:wordpress.com
  results > http://tinyurl.com/csaobsx

  The Tags search page is in the Reader area of the Dashboard.
  http://wordpress.com/tags/

  The Search Widget adds a search box to your blog sidebar, allowing readers to easily search your site for posts and pages you’ve written in the past. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/search-widget/