site not showing up on google

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  cerilloyd · Member · Sep 12, 2014 at 4:43 pm

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  this is happening to a friend of mine’s site. does anyone know why this might be?

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

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 12, 2014 at 4:52 pm

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  How old is your friend’s site? It can take weeks for a new site to start showing up in search results. Focus on creating quality original content and you’ll start showing up in search results eventually, but don’t bargain on jumping straight to the top of page one in a Google search either. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2014 at 4:53 pm

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  As kokkieh indicated what attracts search engines is unique content in posts (not pages) that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more useful information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com 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.

  Note also that 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