Search engines no longer find my posts

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    crushedcaramel · Member ·

    During my first few months of blogging, it seemed very easy to find my posts by typing Crushed Caramel into a search engine. Lots of my posts would appear. But despite being a regular publisher (at least one post at day) for almost a year, my posts seem to be impossible to find now.

    Recently I helped to host a blogging event – a bake-off competition where other bloggers baked a cake and sent in photos. When I typed in THE GREAT BLOGGERS BAKE-OFF into search engines, the posts of the other two hosts and lots of the other bloggers involved appear, but there is not site of my own. I am pleased for those other bloggers of course.

    But I just wondered why despite my regularity in posting, search engines don’t seem to be detecting my posts. I am using tags etc. But I seem to have fallen off their radar inexplicably.

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

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    crushedcaramel · Member ·

    I have also noticed that for at least a month, my pingbacks have not been working. I respond to a lot of writing prompts. At the moment I can wait until my post has been published (I schedule a lot of my posts) and then copy the direct URL into the comments section of the blogger’s original prompt post.

    In the past I had brief interruptions with pingbacks, but normally within a few days they were working again. This is the longest period of time they have not worked for.

    Is there anyway to contact a member of WordPress staff directly? I cannot see any direct contact information.

  • fstat · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Looks like one of your posts was caught by our anti-spam bot and flagged your site. I have cleared your site and it should start appearing in Google’s search results soon.

    Let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you. I’m happy to help.

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    crushedcaramel · Member ·

    Thank you so much! I really appreciate your response.

    Do you think that might also enable my pingbacks to start working? It has been around a month that I have noticed they do not work.

    I respond to a lot of writing prompts hosted by other bloggers. I can wait until my posts have been published and then copy the link into their comments, but as I schedule a lot of my posts in advance, I sometimes forget to do this.

    Thank you for your help :)

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    gemmacevans · Member ·

    Hi crushedcaramel,

    I can see a pending pingback in My Sites > Comments > Pending:

    https://wordpress.com/comments/pending/

    You have chosen to moderate comments (and pingbacks) before they are displayed on crushedcaramel.wordpress.com — so that is why the latest pingback may appear not to have come through.

    The site being flagged may have temporarily prevented pingbacks from working correctly. Now we’ve made a change on our end, do let us know if this problem continues and we’ll take another look.

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