Trouble with SEO. Does Google give more weight to Blogger?
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I am pretty new to WordPress. I’ve had a few questions over the last days and my issues have always been quickly resolved by the knowledgeable answers that follow from the community and staff. I really appreciate how valuable this forum is!
I don’t want to be a bother, but I pretty much have one final question before I believe I’ll be good to sail the WordPress waters on my own. My question is about SEO and WordPress.com
I had an earlier question on the subject of SEO and I was provided with a bunch of links to useful and informative articles explaining how WordPress SEO works. I’ve read them all with great interest. I understand that getting listed in google requires writing and posting refreshing content regularly, writing naturally and organically, using a couple of keywords in the slug line, a couple of keywords in the title and that tags and categories have no bearing on SEO.
I also understand that WordPress does not control what Google indexes, whether or not Google will in fact index it, or how long it might take.
However, I am concerned that I may be doing something wrong. Because, when I google my personal name (Jade Sambrook), my blog simply does not show up in the search results. Nada! Nothing on page 1, 2 or 10 of google. However, I had briefly played around for a few days with Blogger by posting a total of 3 posts. I subsequently shut this Blogger account down a few days after and decided instead to put all my energy into my WordPress blog. Interestingly, when I google my name one of my former Blogger posts appears on page 2 of the Google search results, although when I click on the link mentions that the blog has been removed (jdsunplugged.blogspot.com).
So in other words, I am not able to find my WordPress blog when using my name as a search query in Google, but I am able to find some Blogger post for an account that is no longer active! It makes no sense! Again, I had posted maybe 3 short posts to blogger whereas I have posted much more to WordPress: long articles, photos, alt tags, slug lines, etc…
I will be honest, when I do add a keyword to my name that is relevant to one of my WordPress posts, well, those posts do appear on page 1 of Google. For example: Jade Sambrook cat, Jade Sambrook pride parade, Jade Sambrook kilt, Jade Sambrook photo booth, Jade Sambrook prime minister, etc…
However, when I only use my name I get not one single result from WordPress, yet I do get a result from my closed Blogger account.
Last night I uploaded a post to my WordPress blog with my name in the title and my name throughout the article, my name in the slug line and my name in the alt tags of the photos. Yet I cant find a single mention of my blog when I simply google my name without a keyword attached to it. Also, if I google the exact slug line for this post, my blog does not show up in google at all, but the post does show up as ‘re-blogged’ on 2 other WordPress blogs that are not mine. I simply don’t get it…
Maybe I just have to give it time? Maybe I have to post more? Maybe I am doing something wrong? Maybe I am doing everything right but Google has just decided to index things as it pleases, that is, not show my WordPress blog when I google my name but show the Blogger post from an account that is no longer valid. Or not show my blog post or my blog when I enter the exact slug line, but show it as re-blogged on other peoples blogs. Also, I was thinking that maybe Google gives more weight and importance to Blogger posts than it does WordPress posts?
I really apologize for the long explanation and questions, and I understand that there might not even be an answer to all of this. But if you do know anything that can put me on the right track it would be much appreciated if you’d let me know. I understand that SEO is complex. I just wish that my WordPress blog would appear in google when I google my name without any attached keywords, considering that my name is in the titles, the text, the slug lines and on my blog’s About page.
Again, thank you and cheers!! :)
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Hey,
It takes a while for Google or any other search engine to crawl the web and index everything. It can’t happened a minute after you post something – unless you are a news organisation but that’s what we’re talking about here.
Also, make sure that your blog is visible and accessible by search engines. Check your blog’s privacy settings https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
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Yes, Google gives more weight to Blogger; they have made changes over the years because frankly they were embarrassed by how WP.com blogs outperformed Blogger in SEO. But Yahoo, Bing, and all the others do not favour Blogger blogs. You’ll find you will do just fine if you stick with WP.com.
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The blog’s users cannot use that URL as a link in their WordPress.com Forums profile
from http://en.support.wordpress.com/mature-content/
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