SEO and Name

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  nancysquiresblog · Member · Jun 2, 2016 at 7:38 pm

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  I was hoping that by using my name in my blog title, anyone searching on my name would find my blog ((email visible only to moderators and staff)). However a google search (using nancy squires) doesn’t bring it up, at all. Is there a better way to connect my blog and my name so people can find it ?

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 2, 2016 at 7:40 pm

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  re: search engine discoverability

  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

  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/

  Ebook: Grow Your Traffic, Build Your Blog

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  nancysquiresblog · Member · Jun 2, 2016 at 7:58 pm

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  Thanks for the response. It’s been over three months since I put the blog up, so… I did find info re: the webmaster tools, and I recall going in there and checking things out (I can’t recall exactly what the article said to do), but it didn’t help.
  I started wondering if anyone else out there has successfully linked their name and their blog so it comes up in a search? I wondered if I should have a “byline” in my posts (“by Nancy Squires), it might look ugly but I wondered if it could help.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 2, 2016 at 8:07 pm

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  Your blog is being indexed
  https://www.google.ca/#q=nancysquiresblog&gws_rd=cr

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  nancysquiresblog · Member · Jun 3, 2016 at 12:27 am

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  Thanks for checking that out. But it still does not come up in a google search, not on the first two pages of results anyway.