Search Engines?

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  newmezzo · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 11:12 am

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  Hello,
  I know you must have hundreds of question per day; I am new to this, and not all that good with computers, but am trying to set up a blog as a professional musician, and it NEVER turns up on google, which makes it hard for anyone to know what I am up to.

  Please, how do I get my blog: http://genevievekingsblog.wordpress.com to appear on a Google Search?
  I would be so very grateful for your help.

  With many thanks,
  G. King

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

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  mikedariano · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 11:14 am

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  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.

  Read more about Search engines – http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  Here is the link to Google’s Webmaster tools – http://support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 2:55 pm

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  Also search engines will only index a site if there is something to index – make some new Posts, how about something about some of your past performances? One performance per Post –

  See also: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 3:01 pm

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  @newmezzo
  It can take weeks for search engines to index your blog. It’s publishing posts, not pages that attracts search engine attention. The process we use for verifying free hosted WordPress.com blogs with search engines is found here > 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 provides the search engines with site maps. We bloggers do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/

  These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

  If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

  6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/

  For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/