Is my blog accessible to non-WordPress people?
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(1) Do free WordPress blogs appear in Google search results? (2) apart from Facebook or some other social media network, how I can get non-WordPress users to view my blog. (3) How do I send a link, via email, to someone so they can click on the link and go directly to my blog?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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1. Yes.
2. See below.
3. This is the URL http://standingpresumptionofcompetence.wordpress.com/It can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
What attracts search engines is unique content in posts (not pages) 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 about expediting indexing read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
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
It takes time and effort to build a collection of unique content, to promote it, and to attract followers. It takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.
It is commenting on other blogs with similar content that encourages traffic to flow to your own blog and I believe this will help you Finding Blogs with Similar Content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/
See these for Staff tips on increasing traffic:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content posts (not pages) ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/12/07/7-common-sense-social-networking-tips/ -
Despite the ubiquitous statements to the opposite effect, auto-posting, rather than manual posting unique snippets to different social networks results in fewer people reading your full posts on your site. See Social Networking Blunders > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/09/10/social-networking-blunders/
Please also note the sticky post at the head of these forums titled Getting started in the forums: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forums-faq-getting-started-in-the-forums?replies=2#post-2170304
Are you looking for feedback on your blog? This could range from the design of the site to the actual content of a post. You can get feedback from our Community Pool:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/community-pool/Also, if you just want to connect with other bloggers, get inspired, build your brand, and get inside tips from the folks who bring you WordPress.com, take a look at our Blogging University here:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/
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