Search engines
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I have just built a website called http://www.victoriaparkgallery.wordpress.com
When I search for Victoria Park Gallery, Kincardine, Ontario, the website is not brought up in the search results. However, the Facebook page for the gallery, is always listed. In addition, the search brings up an area which has a button, saying ‘website,’ and if you click it, you are once again taken to the Facebook page. How can I change this?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Unfortunately, you cannot control what google puts in the sidebar. What you can do is install the Yoast SEO plug-in for your site, which will help your site to have better SEO, when configured. Hope this helps!
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The Yoast plugin can only be used on self hosted wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting.
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We cannot help with search engine issues aside from directing you to the relevant support docs.
Your site content, once created and published will by indexed by search engines and will appear in Google search automatically, unless you make the site private, or select the option to make it “hidden”.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/#privacy-options
re: search engine discoverability
Clearly understand that we cannot help anyone with search engine page ranking or search positioning issues at all. Also understand that search engines are not attracted to page based “web site” styled sites as there is so little activity happening on them.
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
Search engines aren’t attracted to sites that are page based. Sites that are post based where publication of posts, not pages is frequent are more attractive to them. 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/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/Also, note that posts do not display in the Reader forever. Posts only display in the WordPress.COM Reader for 60 days.
It’s important that you read this support doc closely http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts
The rule of thumb is to assign to your posts the least, not the most, combined number of only relevant categories and tags that accurately describe the individual post content. And, you never assign the same keyword or keyword phrase as both a category and a tag. -
WordPress.com sites have some built in plugins. However, no SEO plugins are built in or required.
if you are reading anything that makes you think that we bloggers can install advertising, plugins, custom themes or third party themes on sites hosted by wordpress.COM, then you are mistaken/misinformed. We have never had that ability. You are confusing wordpress.COM hosted blogs and wordpress.ORG installs on paid hosting.
Blogger installed plugin capability does not exist on WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality. Permalink structure cannot be changed on sites hosted by wordpress.com
For that type of functionality, you’d need a self-hosted WordPress.ORG software install running on a paid web hosting service.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/See: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress
https://move.wordpress.com/WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
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Your site content, once created and published will by indexed by search engines and will appear in Google search automatically, unless you make the site private, or select the option to make it “hidden”.
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).
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I looked at “recrawl your URLS”. Interesting, maybe a little “scary” because I don’t want to make a mistake. Not really sure I understand the HTML instructions.
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Sorry but as I said from the outset we cannot help with search engine issue. They are between you and the search engines.
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