New to blogging…finding blog through Google search?

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  laura84x · Member · Jun 10, 2015 at 3:32 pm

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  Hi i am very new to blogging and haven’t finished the set up of my page yet but was wondering how i can make sure my blog can be found through an online search eg: Google.

  Thanks in advance, Laura x

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

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  darrellschulte · Member · Jun 10, 2015 at 4:10 pm

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  Hello laura84x! Give this a read about Google.

  Why isn’t my blog in Google?
  WordPress.com automatically sends notifications to Google with every post and page update. The search engines can take 4-6 weeks or more to add any new sites. Connecting a Google account with verified site ownership through Google’s webmaster tools may help register your site for inclusion. Please contact Google for more information.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 10, 2015 at 4:14 pm

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  You do not have any published content yet so there is nothing on the site to attract search engines to it.

  It takes time and effort to build a collection of unique content, to promote it, and to attract followers. As daschultemn posted above it takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  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

  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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  laura84x · Member · Jun 10, 2015 at 4:43 pm

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  Thanks for the reply guys much appreciated – will check out all the links when I get home.

  Excited to get started 😊 x