How to search for my website?
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Hello Support –
I am getting to the end of finalizing my website and turning off the password protect feature to be able to view the site.
My question is, lets say a user goes to Google and searches st alphonsus and st joseph, how will my site be one of the first to show up in the results?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Elizabeth
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Anyone with internet access can view any public blog. To change blog visibility to Public go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 1. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings
It can take weeks for search engines to index your site content after your make the blog visibility public. 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.
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
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how will my site be one of the first to show up in the results?
If you figure out how to be #1 let me know – I am serious – search results are not instant –
It takes 4 to 7 weeks for a new site to be fully indexed by search engines – and that is only if you have content worth indexing – you have now trained the search engines to ignore your site – you need to retrain the search engines –
make sure you have some new Posts after you go public because Posts call up search engines and ask them to stop by
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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Thank you everyone for helping me out!
I plan on reviewing all of the links provided and get this site rolling.
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