Site Public in settings but impossible to find via search engines
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Hi everyone!
So I just created a website through wordpress, it’s only with the free version so it still has the .wordpress at the end but I’m a students so needs must! Anyway I wanted to see if I could find it via google and it’s nowhere to be found.
The site is camillededetmakeup.wordpress.com and if you type that in the url bar it does find it. However if you type any other variation of that in the search bar, i.e ‘camille dedet makeup wordpress’, ‘camillededetmakeup wordpress’ … Google just tells me that there are no websites at all that correspond to my search.Is there something I’m missing?
Thanks a lot
Alice
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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
Search engines aren’t attracted to sites that are page based. Sites that are post based where publication of posts, not pages is frequent are more attractive to them. 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.
WordPress.COM 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/ -
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You’re welcome and best wishes.
Re: social networking
WordPress.COM social network icons for sharing https://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/ you posts display the number of times people visited the actual post/page and clicked to share it. WordPress.COM does not have access to the share counts for shares made on the social networking sites themselves.
Also note this support doc for auto sharing https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
re: wordpress.com blog subscriptions
Also, note that posts do not display in the Reader forever. Posts only display in the WordPress.COM Reader for 60 days.
All that’s required to follow any blog hosted by wordpress.COM is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.
Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf. More to the point is the fact that when email addresses are submitted for the purpose of receiving blog updates that is the only purpose they can be used for.
You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/
Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibilityWe have a blog subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.
The mailchimp and aweber pop-up subscription code provided by those source sites will not operate on WordPress.COM hosted sites. Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp
Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following
Subscriptions and Newsletters
https://en.support.wordpress.com/subscriptions-and-newsletters/Your wordpress.com subscribers will be found here
http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers
* Replace NAME_OF_BLOG with the actual name of the blog.
Note that the title there includes Publicize followers from social networks. https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
Your email only subscribers will be found here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email
Also, note that posts do not display in the Reader forever. Posts only display in the WordPress.COM Reader for 60 days.
To increase traffic see:
Grow Your Community
https://en.support.wordpress.com/grow-your-community/Getting More Views and Traffic
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
Ebook: Grow Your Traffic, Build Your Blog
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/Are you looking for feedback on your blog? This could range from the design of the site to the actual content of a post. You can get feedback from our Community Pool:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/community-pool/Also, if you just want to connect with other bloggers, get inspired, build your brand, and get inside tips from the folks who bring you WordPress.com, take a look at our Blogging University here:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/
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