My blog won't appear in Google searches

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  lipsticksandchocolate · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 5:01 pm

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  I tried using Google Webmaster Tools so that my blog would appear in Google searches but it won’t work.
  Google says:

  Verification failed for https://lipsticksandchocolate.wordpress.com/ using the HTML file method (less than a minute ago). Your verification file was not found.
  Verify your ownership of https://lipsticksandchocolate.wordpress.com/.

  even though the html code is in the Google Webmaster Tools tab in my wordpress blog.
  Please help me! Thank you!

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

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  timethief · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 6:07 pm

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  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 can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. 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 read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

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  lipsticksandchocolate · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 6:38 pm

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  You helped me a lot! Thank you so much! (:

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  timethief · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 6:40 pm

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  You’re welcome and happy blogging!