I'm new – why I can't see my post?

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  puppyblogtails · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 5:24 pm

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  Two problems.

  Just posted my first blog entry and learning the ropes.

  But – why isn’t it coming up when I search in the website?

  And – how do I publicize it? I tried to put on Facebook but it hasn’t appeared. How else will people know about it? Is there a tutorial somewhere on this?

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

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  airodyssey · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 6:08 pm

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  Hi. Yes, your post shows up on the search engine. Remember, the search engine indexes posts, not blogs or usernames.
  http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=site%3Apuppyblogtails.wordpress.com+In+which+a+puppy+is+chosen

  And there is an ongoing issue on Facebook’s end regarding Publicize, I’m afraid:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/publicize-feature-and-facebook-displaying-image-from-wp-on-fb?replies=25#post-575645

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 6:39 pm

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  @puppyblogtails, also when you first start out here, it can take a little while, perhaps a day or two for your posts to start showing up in internal searches sometimes.

  Just keep posting and things will straighten out for you. The search engines like Google might take up to 4 weeks to index your site, but they will. It just all depends on how busy they are and how much stuff they have backed up.

  Also, each time you publish a post, wordpress notified (pings) all the major search engines and services through pingomatic.