not indexed in google and bing

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  ruthw2 · Member · Jun 10, 2013 at 5:17 pm

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  not indexed and I believe I’ve done everything correctly . please help me to get this problem solved – thank you
  The important stuff:
  ✓Your web server [76.74.254.123] 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.

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  ⚠Your blog is not indexed by Bing.
  ⚠Your blog seems slow. It took 1.13 seconds to generate the page.
  ⚠Your blog application doesn’t support gzip compression.
  ⚠Your feed seems slow. It took 2.51 seconds to generate the feed.
  ✓Your blog is a WordPress.com blog.
  For support please visit WordPress.com.

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

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  lorelle · Member · Jun 13, 2013 at 3:50 pm

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  Sorry you haven’t gotten a response to this. This forum is not about SEO.

  I validated your site’s code and you have code errors that may prevent a search engine from moving easily through your site, though the XML Sitemap that comes automatically with every WordPress.com site appears to be working.

  Ranking and SEO are complex things.

  First, check to see that you have Settings > Reading > Site Visibility is set to allow search engine to index the site. This is often ignored during the setup phase or set and forgotten while the site is being developed. As the tool you used says that the site is not indexed by those search engines, this is most likely the issue. I found it on Google.

  Second, go through your site’s words. Make sure that all headings within the post content (subtitles) are in HTML headings tags (h1, h2, h3 – set on the second row of the Visual Editor and hand coded if you are writing in the Text Editor in HTML), and that the words you are using are the words you wish to have find you when people search on the web. For example, it took me a while to figure out that you are based in Winnipeg but there is little to indicate that this is the one in Canada. Not a joke, just a fact. People often search for provinces, states, countries, neighborhood names, and you need to ensure that you have all the words prominently displayed that indicate the region you cover.

  As for the limits of what we can do on this support forum, which is to help you with technical issues not SEO, that’s the most I can offer at this time. There are many classes and articles on improving your SEO impact from a non-WordPress.com technical aspect. They should help, but check to ensure you have indexing turned on.

  Thanks.