Redirected domain to wordpress blog not getting indexed by Google

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  cohn · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 4:43 pm

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  I sent an email into support a week or so ago and never heard anything.

  I bought credits for one of my existing domains on 1-28 to automagically redirect to my years old blog. I believe I followed all the prompts resetting DNS to WordPress.

  Prior to adding the domain, my blog posts were indexed in both Google search and Google blog search results.

  Since I made the switch, my new domain searchmarketingcommunications.com is not getting indexed nor have any of the posts I have written since 1-28-09.

  I think I have done what was suggested correctly. What have I missed?

  Any ideas why the new domain and the posts post switch aren’t getting indexed?

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

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  cohn · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 10:00 pm

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  My WordPress address was http://cohn.wordpress.com. My new url is http://www.searchmarketingcommunications.com

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  vivianpaige · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 10:55 pm

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  If you search the forums, you will discover that Google can take up to 6 weeks to index your site. Have you verified your site with Google as explained in the FAQ http://faq.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/how-do-i-verify-my-site-with-google/

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  cohn · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 11:35 pm

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  I searched and saw varying degrees of time required to get re-crawled. Didn’t see six months…

  I didn’t know I could verify a wordpress.com site with Google Webmaster tools – which I will be doing now.

  Thanks VivianPaige

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  cohn · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 11:49 pm

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  http://www.searchmarketingcommunications.com has been verified in Google Webmaster Tools as of 11:45 PM February 16, 2009.

  Another reason WordPress rocks!