Visibility Problem

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  fangirlmodedisabled · Member · Mar 27, 2017 at 6:55 pm

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  Hello,
  So I changed my address name recently and I’ve noticed a severe drop in my stats. I googled some key terms into search engines to see if my blog (or the posts in question) would pop but it didn’t. I think my content is not visible to the public?
  At some point I typed in the specific title for a post of mine and got the link for the previous address which read ‘page not found’.
  What can I do to make my content search friendly and find-able?
  Thanks a plenty.

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 28, 2017 at 4:03 am

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  After you change a URL you experience what you have described. Your site content, once re-indexed by search engines, will appear in Google search, unless you make the site private.

  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/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/six-seo-factors-you-should-know/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

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