Making my blog searchable on Google and other major search engines?

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  beyondthearcblog · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 1:58 pm

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  How do I make my blog searchable on Google and the other major search engines? I am running my blog on WordPress.com not .org. I have 10+ posts and my blog isn’t recoverable on Google when I type in my blog name.

  Help would be appreciated!
  Blog url: http://beyondthearcblog.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm

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  This is the process we WordPress.com bloggers use to verify our blog ownership with the major search engines. http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Wordpress.com provides sitemaps and there’s nothing you need to do.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
  It takes time for your content to be indexed by search engines and when that happens is strictly between you and the search engines. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  The most important thing you can do to gain search engines attention is to publish original content posts frequently and here are the 10 factors that tend to expedite indexing of content by search engines.
  http://www.onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/ The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 2:01 pm

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  Google takes up to seven weeks to index blogs, in part to prevent indexing spam blogs. Just blog good, original content, and be patient.

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  beyondthearcblog · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 2:07 pm

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  Oh okay! so after the seven weeks, will I then be able to search my posts and my main blog page regularly on google? And is this just for google, or will my blog start to be indexed on other engines as well?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 2:21 pm

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  Other search engines have different schedules, but if you have been regularly blogging for seven weeks, you wil get on their radar.

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  beyondthearcblog · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 2:39 pm

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  Thanks for your help.