How do people find me?
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When strangers pull up WordPress.com and find themselves on your home page, what instructions do I give them to find my blog from there?
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Please read this response I just posted into your first thread > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/dont-care-about-spam-how-do-i-email-links-to-my-posts?replies=2#post-1717883
When strangers pull up WordPress.com and find themselves on your home page, what instructions do I give them to find my blog from there?
This is your blog’s front page http://yoursfoolie.wordpress.com/
By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, and know that static front pages are traffic killers, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page: -
That’s what happens when you type the full URL into the bar designed for that purpose. If you just Google that address it takes you to a homepage for WordPress. Can they find me from there?
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The URL for the blog is the page for posts ie. the front page of the blog where all posts are displayed. That prevails unless your choose to do what I described above and create a static front page for a welcome message and a another page for posts to display on.
re: Google
It takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. 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 rule of thumb is to assign the least, not the most, combined number of only relevant categories and tags that accurately describe the post content. For tips on tagging see > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com 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.Note also that 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
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It’s kind of you to reply ~ I didn’t make the circumstance clear.
A person gets my front page if they type the entire URL into the little URL bar at the top of their screen.
If they type yoursfoolie.wordpress.com into the main search box, they get a generic WordPress front page, encouraging them to start a blog.
Can they find me from there?
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Anyone who types this URL http://yoursfoolie.wordpress.com/ into their upper browser bar right now will connect with your blog immediately just like I do.
To test this you can log out of WordPress.com, clear your browser cache http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies, http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies and without logging in again do that and see what you experience.
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A person gets my front page if they type the entire URL into the little URL bar at the top of their screen.
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