Searchability

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    ardentorca · Member ·

    Hi, I was wondering why my first attempt at a wordpress site was actually searchable in the web, but the second one cannot be found. Did I make an unintentional error? This is the one that is not searchable:
    modernmapledesigns.wordpress.com

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Your blog is being indexed.

    re: search engine discoverability

    You need to start publishing posts not pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ frequently ie. at least twice weekly for search engine attention.

    A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

    What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

    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

    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.

    For more information on expediting search engine indexing of your site read > http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google

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