Site not visible in Google searches

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  riarajendran · Member · Oct 27, 2015 at 8:20 am

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  I have upgraded my Blog using the wordpress premium Package.

  Although my site scarletblushblog.com works when this link is entered… it doesn’t show any where in the Google searches when i type “scarletblushblog”

  Could you tell me the procedure to do so?

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

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  ariwinokur · Member · Oct 27, 2015 at 8:34 am

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  It takes time for a new site to show in Google search results. You can manually push for Google to add your site by adding it here or setting up and verifying it in Google Search Console.

  For a full listing of your options and best practices with WordPress.com, read through this article: https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

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  riarajendran · Member · Oct 27, 2015 at 9:37 am

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  Thank you!

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  ariwinokur · Member · Oct 27, 2015 at 9:42 am

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  No problem. I’m glad I could help. Please let us know if there are any other issues we can help with!

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  riarajendran · Member · Oct 27, 2015 at 6:02 pm

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  Yes i have one more issue… I have made 3 pages…
  1. Review
  2. Swatch
  3. Youtube Videos

  Whenever i post something it only appears on the main home page. How can i make categories of the posts, so that if i post something For example: if that post is a Review, it should appear both on the home page as well as on the Review Page.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 27, 2015 at 6:07 pm

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  This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories

  b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu

  c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
  and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

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  timethief · Member · Oct 27, 2015 at 6:13 pm

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  P.S. I would like to add more to what ariwinokur posted above please.

  You have published a single page, not a post and search engines are focused on posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ You need to publish posts frequently to gain search engines attention so they index your published content. Please see here for more information on expediting the search engine indexing process https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

  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

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  riarajendran · Member · Oct 28, 2015 at 5:27 am

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  hello ariwinokur and timethief…

  Yes since i have just started this blogsite…i havent posted anything.. however after ariwinokur’s suggestion i tried manually pushing it and now it does appear in the google search :)

  Also thank you timethief for the link for Custom menu & Categories… i did as mentioned and now i can see both the post on the main page as well in the sub categories :)

  thanks a ton :)

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  riarajendran · Member · Oct 28, 2015 at 10:47 am

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  Hello, I have another doubt!

  I just posted 2 blog posts…which are appearing in both the main page & sub category page as i wanted them to appear.

  My question is, Is there an option that just the Topic and a Photo relating to the topic appears for each post instead of the entire post being shown. And a link “Read More” below the post that we can click to view the entire post?