unable to find the new blog on google

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  whitedragongolf · Member · May 18, 2014 at 5:44 am

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  I have my own domain and recently set up a .com site. I paid the $13 dollar fee to integrate my domain, but if I type the blog name into google it just sends me to the people I bought the name from ?

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

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  kardotim · Member · May 19, 2014 at 11:24 am

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  WordPress.com automatically sends notifications to Google with every post and page update. However, search engines can take 4 to 6 weeks (or more) to add any new sites.

  For more information about WordPress.com and search engines, please see this guide:

  Search Engines

  It will also take a couple of days from the time you created your blog for it to show up in WordPress.com search results. For more information please see this link:

  WordPress.com Search

  You can change your blog’s visibility to search engines by visiting Settings > Reading in your Dashboard, and looking under “Site Visibility”.

  Please check out our support documentation on that feature here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  … and let me know if you have any questions. :)

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  whitedragongolf · Member · May 19, 2014 at 9:55 pm

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  Thanks for the info, will let you know what happens. Do you know exactly what the $13 was for?

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  kardotim · Member · May 20, 2014 at 5:26 am

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  The upgrade you’ve purchased was for mapping the domain (theancientofdays.info) to your WordPress.com site.

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  whitedragongolf · Member · May 24, 2014 at 3:09 am

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  Not sure what mapping means !. I just want people to put http://www.theancientofdays.info into google and go to the site. What do I need to do to achieve this

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  kardotim · Member · May 24, 2014 at 6:19 am

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  Domain Mapping is when you have an existing domain (like theancientofdays.info) and point/map this to your WordPress.com site.

  However, it looks like your domain is not pointing to WordPress.com name servers yet:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-helper/?host=theancientofdays.info

  Please go to your domain registrar’s site and log into the control panel. You will need to update the name servers as below:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  Otherwise contact them to help you set these.

  Once these are set your domain will redirect to your WordPress.com within 48 hours.

  WordPress.com automatically sends notifications to Google with every post and page update. However, search engines take a while to add any new sites.

  For more information about WordPress.com and search engines, please see this guide:
  http://support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  Let me know if you have any questions!

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  whitedragongolf · Member · May 25, 2014 at 4:13 am

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  Ok thanks, will try to sort this out. will let you know the outcome