My site is broken -doesn't show up in Google at all

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    tayojisi · Member ·

    I’ve had my site for a few months now and it doesn’t show up in Google at all, even if you type in the site name. I tested it on ‘ismyblogworking.com’ and this is what I got back. Somebody please help, I’m not an advanced user so I don;t understand how I can fix this:

    Your blog is broken.
    sweetartcomics.wordpress.com — “Sweetart Comics”

    Description:

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    The important stuff:

    Your web server [192.0.78.13] is working fine.
    Your RSS feed is available.
    Your robots.txt file is valid and allows search engines to index your content.
    Your blog is not indexed by Google. powered by
    Your blog is not indexed by Bing.
    Your real blog URL is https://sweetartcomics.wordpress.com/
    Your blog application doesn’t support gzip compression.
    The feed discovery URL advertised in your <link> redirects to a different location.
    Your RSS feed contains no items.
    Your blog is a self-hosted WordPress blog.
    For support please visit WordPress.org.
    The boring technical details:

    Redirect count: 1
    Redirect time: 12 ms
    282 ms page generation time
    308 ms page fetch time
    58 KB/sec effective transfer speed
    1,077 KB/sec burst download speed
    151 ms feed generation time
    155 ms feed fetch time
    6 KB/sec effective feed transfer speed
    4,476 KB/sec burst feed download speed
    Page size (uncompressed): 18,180 bytes
    Content ratio: 18.3%
    Blog If-Modified-Since response: 200
    Feed If-None-Match response: 304
    RSD URL: sweetartcomics.wordpress.com
    WLW manifest URL: sweetartcomics.wordpress.com
    Generator: wordpress.com
    Feature Supported?
    RSS yes
    RDF no
    Atom no
    Page Gzip no
    Feed Gzip no
    Page 304 no
    Feed 304 yes
    robots.txt yes
    More tools:

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    prodiniz · Member ·

    Hey tayojisi,

    I don’t know if it helps you or not, but I saw your post and was curious so I googled it myself. Everything seemed to come up fine. Here’s a screenie of my results:

    http://www.awesomescreenshot.com/showImage?img_id=1470750

    Very similar results came back when I just searched for “Sweetart Comics” and sweetartcomics.wordpress.com

    However, if in the future, you’re still having problems getting on the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) it might have something to do with the search engine’s crawler and how recently your page was indexed, but I’m not sure how reliable ismyblogworking.com is.

    I tried several pages (including sites like boingboing.net) and they all came up as “Broken” and said none of them were indexed by Google or Bing. I would try a more reputable or authoritative source to verify if your site is indexing properly like:

    https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34444?hl=en
    or
    https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/why-is-my-site-not-in-the-index-2141dfab

    Anyway, I hope that helps. Best of luck. :)

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    prodiniz · Member ·

    My apologies, tayojisi.

    A more appropriate link for the webmaster tools and their explanations would be here:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=indexing

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    tayojisi · Member ·

    Hi prodiniz,

    Thanks so much for getting back to me. I always dread going on these kinds of forums because people can be quite mean but you were very helpful.

    Last night I verified my site with Google so I think that changed things because before, when I typed in my site title, nothing would come up. I suppose I thought that wordpress was supposed to take care of the SEO for you and the other things such as verifying your site and adding your sitemap to Google’s webmaster, etc were extra things that you could do if you so choose?

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    prodiniz · Member ·

    Hey tayjisi,

    I’m glad I could help. You are correct that WordPress.com does take care of all of those things for you and it’s very likely it would have corrected itself over the next few days. The things you did and that I mentioned just helped speed that process up. Crawlers can be finicky things, especially for static pages. Additionally, there is a really helpful user here named timethief. They specifically blog about things to help with your blog (help me help you, right? lol). This is, in fact, where I got some of the information to help you. :)

    You can check out some of their tips here:
    https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/

    Btw, keep up the cool art. :)

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    tayojisi · Member ·

    Thank you prodiniz! You are truly awesome :)

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