Not showing up in google search after several months
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My website is about cajun accordion songs which is an obscure topic anyway. I try to google search by typing in exact phrases that can be found on my site and it doesn’t show up at all. My privacy settings are public and the site has been online for over 6 months.
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The issue is that you are not publishing posts on a regular basis.
re: search engine discoverability
It can take weeks for search engines to index your site content. Please read this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/ so you know we have no control over search engines positioning or appearance in the SERPs (search engine page results).
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
See also: Make the Most of Our New SEO Settings Panel
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https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/seo-settings-panel/To gain search engine attention, I recommend that you start publishing posts (not pages) https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ frequently. That’s because it can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.
WordPress.COM SEO resources that you will want to consult are:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/six-seo-factors-you-should-know/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/ -
Thanks for the info. However, my website is not a blog where I will be adding more posts. I spent a great deal of time posting an mp3 and PDF file for over 30 different cajun accordion songs so it’s more like an archive/resource than an active blog.
Is there any hope that it will be picked up by search engines? I would hope someone looking for this specific niche topic would be able to find it.
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While you might not plan to blog regularly, I do tend to agree that a few more articles will help you out. You might break your About section into different articles, for example, each with title and content that relate to the ways people might be looking for your site. And I don’t mean that in a spammy way at all. I mean if someone was going to try to find your site, how would they know what words to look for? You need a few articles covering those topics.
If you wanted to go big, you could write a little article about each song.
But if you only want to do one thing, make a new post called “What is Cajun Accordion Music?” and write an article about that. Maybe embed one or two of your favorite examples. I don’t know what related words people might be searching under, but be sure it covers those and tells how the relate. Then share that post publicly on Facebook and Twitter.
And then give it a few weeks for Google to pick it up. Give that a try and let us know if if it helps. :)
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