Site has been up for several months but still not being picked up by Google
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Our site (practicaltechnologyforarchives.org) has been active for several months but is still not showing up in Google search results, even when you search on the site’s URL. The visibility settings are correct and the XML sitemap is being generated without a problem:
http://practicaltechnologyforarchives.org/sitemap.xmlIs there something I am not doing? Is there some other problem that I can’t fix myself? Google webmaster tools gives you a lot of options, but I don’ think that I can use any of them on a WordPress-hosted site, but WordPress claims I don’t have to do anything, so now what?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You have virtually no content, only three static pages, and presumably no incoming links as a result. Google only indexes material it thinks other people are looking for, so either create some blog posts or somehow coax people to link to you.
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There is nothing worth indexing on your site – you have maybe two or three pages, no content, no reason for a person or search engine to visit your site
you need to add some content (in Posts)
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Like the other Volunteers have said it takes weeks for search engines to index content and you do not have much to attract any search engines attention to there.
What attracts search engines is unique content in posts that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts, not pages frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
Lastly note that we cannot assist with search engine issues. They are between the blogger and the search engine. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
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Thanks everybody. I knew that incoming links and extent of content effected your rankings, but I guess I assumed that they would at least index what was there if there was a sitemap, given enough time.
The site is going to be a peer-reviewed open-access journal, and we’re still in the process of accepting and evaluating submissions, hence no content yet.
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Then at least make a single Post, about how you are getting started, peer review is in process, maybe mention some subjects that are being reviewed. maybe a bit on why you started a new web site.
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