My website's seo isn't working any more.

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  storygenie5 · Member · Nov 22, 2021 at 4:58 pm

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  Hi!

  I googled my website and it is no longer appearing in search results.

  What could be the possible cause of this?

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  storygenie5 · Member · Nov 22, 2021 at 5:45 pm

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  I was able to find my site on google yesterday

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Nov 22, 2021 at 5:59 pm

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  Hi there!

  Can you let us know what the URL is of the site where you’re having this problem? Once we have that information, we’ll be better able to advise.

  NOTE: We can only assist with websites hosted at WordPress.com. If you’re using the WordPress software, but hosted elsewhere, you will need to reach out to your hosting provider or the WordPress.org community for guidance:

  https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting

  Thank you!

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  storygenie5 · Member · Nov 22, 2021 at 6:08 pm

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  https://jazzypuzzles.wordpress.com

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Nov 22, 2021 at 8:05 pm

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  Up until four weeks ago, your site was set to nogoogle which meant it was not visible to search engines.

  What search terms are you using and where are you expecting your site to appear in those results? You can read more about SEO on WordPress.com here:

  https://wordpress.com/support/seo/

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  storygenie5 · Member · Nov 23, 2021 at 12:33 am

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  Hi!

  My site was visible on google just yesterday.
  The search terms I am using is Jazzy Puzzle Club

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Nov 23, 2021 at 1:14 am

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  If your site is visible on Google that does mean that they are indexing your site and verifies that there is nothing blocking them from doing so.

  However, showing up for a search term is not the same thing. That requires that you compete with all other websites trying to rank for those terms, which may number in the millions of sites or more. Your site is optimized, but to show up for search terms like that you also need to optimize your content (the words and images you post on your site) so they are optimized as well.

  Being on an optimized platform like WordPress.com helps you by making sure that search engines can crawl your site but it’s up to you as a site owner to give them a reason to rank you higher than the other sites they scan.

  SEO is great on WordPress.com without your having to do anything special other than post to your blog regularly.

  The longer your blog exists, the more you post, and the more people who visit it, the higher it should climb in Google’s rankings.

  We have some additional tips on optimizing your site for search engines here:
  https://wordpress.com/dailypost/2016/03/10/six-seo-factors-you-should-know/

  That is a good place to start, but you can also take a deep dive here: https://wpbizseo.wordpress.com/