Search Engines Can't find my Site

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  acatalano3 · Member · Nov 6, 2016 at 12:50 am

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  Hello,

  My site title is “Anthony Catalano” and the tagline is “Classical Guitar” but even if I do a search (google, bing, yahoo) for “Anthony Catalano Classical Guitar” nothing comes up.

  Thank you.

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

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  melindahelt · Staff · Nov 6, 2016 at 1:08 am

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  HI!

  First: From your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings/Reading and make sure the box for “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” is not checked.

  Second: it looks like you have a self-hosted WordPress site (also known as WordPress.org), so you’ll want to check out that support forum at https://wordpress.org/support/

  To learn more about the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org (self-hosted), take a look at http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  acatalano3 · Member · Nov 6, 2016 at 1:24 am

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  Thank you. I did try that about an hour ago and still no luck. Does it take more time for the search engines to find your site? Is their anything else I can do? I looked in the wordpress.org forums, but no luck. And I can’t find a place to start a new thread there. Thank you again for your help.

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  melindahelt · Staff · Nov 6, 2016 at 1:32 am

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  It’s hard to say exactly, but it will probably take a few days (not a few hours). You can also look into submitting your site to Google via Google Search Console.

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  acatalano3 · Member · Nov 6, 2016 at 1:35 am

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  Okay, thank you.

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  catherinstar · Member · Nov 6, 2016 at 2:46 am

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  Thank you Malinda. Why would that be off I wonder.
  Geez, all this time the search engines have bee told not to include me.