keywords, SEO, google, etc.
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Does WP calculate all your keywords, titles, and other things that may be used by search engines to locate your site?
I recently submitted a sitemap, but I am still having trouble getting google to pull up my site on basic searches related to my business and content. I am wondering what else I can do.
Thanks!
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WP.COM is the most SEO-optimized platform I’ve ever seen, and I have blogs on EVERYTHING.
Your site is still very new. Remember, it was offline for more of its life than it’s been online for, and it’s not uncommon for Google to take six weeks to properly index a site. As well, you’re starting from zero, as in there are five hundred million blogs out there that have more Googlejuice than you do. It will come in time.
Here is some advice about how to use keywords:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-to-add-keywords-to-my-blog?replies=27#post-243146 -
Thanks. I have had three websites in the past, and most began to show up in Google searches rather quickly so I have been wondering what I am missing here….
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Does WP calculate all your keywords, titles, and other things that may be used by search engines to locate your site?
No wordpress.com does not “calculate” any of those items.
<blcokquote> I recently submitted a sitemap, but I am still having trouble getting google to pull up my site on basic searches related to my business and content.
Your blog is enabled with just about everything you need to be super-searchable. This includes an XML sitemap, which you can access at yourblogname.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml.
No need to do anything extra on your end. The sitemap file included with your blog is available to every search engine that supports the protocol, including Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com, and others. WordPress.com automatically sends updates to search engines every time you update or delete a page or post. If you would like to learn more about the protocol, visit sitemaps.org. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/
If you are looking for SEO tips may I suggest that you look here? http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/category/seo-tips/
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Google has indexed 6 of your posts. Bing had not indexed any.
Side issue:
Your markup does not validate. See here > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ferinmidwife.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
I tried to see if your CSS validates and got this error messageCSS Validator Error
Target: http:/erinmidwife.com
I/O Error: Unable to contact target server :80 after 3 tries.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2F%2Ferinmidwife.com&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en -
Thank you!
It’s the rest of my website (beyond my blog page) that I would like to come up in Google search as it also functions as my business website.
I have no idea what it means that my “markup” and CSS do not validate???
I looked through the links you posted by I do not understand what I am reading. Thanks for taking the time to check on these things however! -
The static pages, as we’ve explained, have virtually NO googlejuice and that will never change. It is the nature of the web. Google seeks out dynamic content, and that’s why businesses get blogs; so that the blog attracts search engines, and then people can click from the blog to the other pages once they’re on the site. This will still work on your site.
By “your markup and CSS do not validate” she means your CSS code has errors. You will need to fix them in order for your blog to function well and be optimized for search engines (the more errors, the lower it ranks). Unfortunately, I know nothing about CSS and cannot help you.
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Thanks, I suppose have to research the CSS errors with someone who does this professionally.
Raincoaster, in my experience your comment that static pages have no “googlejuice” has not rung true. Most websites are not blogs, and they manage to show up in relevant searches just as all my previous websites have done. Almost everyone in my business has a website too, most of them are not blogs, and they show up in the first few results when people look for local midwives.
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They exist in searches. You are finding them because as you say, most websites particularly in that industry are static and not blogs. A few good blogs will push them off the front few pages of Google in no time. You can test this over time. The association sites that I see on the top of “midwife” searches in Google have a dynamic, blog component on the front page.
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The one thing that jumps out to me is you’ll need to put font names with more than one word in quotes “like this”. There might be a few other bits I’ve missed too.
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