Is my wordpress public?
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I created this wordpress account since 2016 and have been struggling with the settings of the account since. I have already started writing and publishing my short thoughts. I have no idea if I am setting up my account properly. I do not know if anyone is able to read my post. I have seen any views on them. I do not know what i am doing incorrectly. I need some assistance plz.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The setup instructions for your theme are here https://wordpress.com/theme/affinity
All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/ where we have a search box as the most prominent feature on the page.
These support docs are useful for getting started:
Get started https://en.support.wordpress.com/start/
Quick Start https://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
Basic tutorial http://learn.wordpress.com
Tutorials https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/
Video tutorials https://en.support.wordpress.com/video-tutorials/
Using the theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/Set Up Your Blog in Five Steps https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup
Build a Business Website Tutorial
https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/business-website-tutorial/Making a Business Website
https://en.support.wordpress.com/making-a-business-website/See also Five Leads for Self-Help with WordPress.com https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/help-with-wordpress-com/
Everyone with internet access can view any public wordpress.com hosted site. They type the URL into their upper browser bar and click.
Or you could set your site as private https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ and then issue invitations only to those you wish to view it.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-site -
I do not know if anyone is able to read my post. I have seen any views on them.
It can take weeks for search engines to index your site content. 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.Below I will post a series of things aimed at helping you establish the site and gain traffic to it.
See:
Categories https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
Categories vs Tags https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/
Tags https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/
Tagging tips https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/tagging-tips/You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/
Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button. https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility
To increase traffic see:
Grow Your Community
https://en.support.wordpress.com/grow-your-community/Getting More Views and Traffic
Ebook: Grow Your Traffic, Build Your BlogYou can set up email subscriptions here >customizer > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/
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
Search engines aren’t attracted to sites that are page based. Sites that are post based where publication of posts, not pages is frequent are more attractive to them. To gain search engine attention, I recommend that you start publishing posts (not pages) https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ frequently.
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