Search yields obsolete info on hits page

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  professoreugene · Member · Apr 4, 2012 at 9:45 pm

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  Searching for my own blog (email visible only to moderators and staff), I get obsolete info returned as the first hit. It does direct me to the correct page, but I need to address this issue as it may not be recognized by seekers of my site. Thanks

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

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  professoreugene · Member · Apr 4, 2012 at 9:47 pm

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  I think that should read professoreugene.wordpress.com

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  professoreugene · Member · Apr 4, 2012 at 9:55 pm

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  The exact search string was http://www.professoreugene.wordpress/fourteen “dusty miller drive”. I have changed the title of my novel to this from “American Teenagers.sys.”

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  professoreugene · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 9:34 pm

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  Sorry, folks; I think I may have blown it again. Here is the correct link. It shud read

  http://www.professoreugene.wordpress/fourteen “dusty miller drive”

  Thanks again. Eugene

  P.S. I’m beginning to think that the reason for the problem is the search engines “delay” in seeking later versions of URLs. Am I right?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 9:40 pm

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  This is the URL for your blog (note there is no www) http://professoreugene.wordpress.com/

  Pages and posts are different > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-title-url/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-title-url/

  This is how the WordPress.com search utility operates: http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

  The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 9:44 pm

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  A Google search for this string:
  dusty miller drive site:professoreugene.wordpress.com (note the correct format)
  turns up only cached results http://tinyurl.com/7shbwqy

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  timethief · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 9:48 pm

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  I’m not sure how to help you with this as it appears that Fourteen “Dusty Miller Drive”. Posted on September 13, 2009 by professoreugene is no longer in the blog.

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 6, 2012 at 9:57 pm

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  Search engines don’t crawl sites very often if they have decided that the site is stale with no new content or content that changes very slowly – that Page has a 2009 date on it.

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  professoreugene · Member · Apr 7, 2012 at 3:50 am

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  Thanks for all this input, timethief and auxclass. Watched video, applied lesson. Problem solved.

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 7, 2012 at 4:12 am

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  You be welcome & Good luck