Site is not searchable?

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  anotherliberal · Member · Sep 3, 2011 at 4:19 am

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  I cannot seem to make my blog show up in searches. Including searching for the word ‘anotherliberal’ from the WordPress.com search box.

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 3, 2011 at 4:35 am

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  Hello there,
  Let’s start with how the WordPress.com search utility works

  It can take a few days before new blogs are included in the search index. Brand new blogs might not have enough posts for us to accurately determine whether or not it’s spam.

  Also, keep in mind that the search engine only indexes the body text of blog posts, pages, and comments. The blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. Read the full entry.

  If you have not created a Google webmasters account and verified your blog ownership with the major search engines then please do that now. There’s a special process for verifying WordPress.com blogs here.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 3, 2011 at 4:43 am

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  Your blog is indexed by Google (18 results).
  Your blog is not indexed by Bing.

  Now use Google search (note there is no space following the colon).
  search string
  anotherliberal site:wordpress.com
  search results > http://tinyurl.com/3dxxbk4

  There are 10 factors that may expedite search engine indexing of your posts.
  OMG! I can’t find my blog on Google

  Hope this helps. :)