Web searchable Pages
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Is it possible to make Pages web searchable? If so, how? If they are already, but what element are they searchable?
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All of our public blogs are indexed by Google, Bing and other search engines. Search engines are not attracted to static sites with Pages only. Pages do not have RSS feeds and cannot have categories and tags assigned to them because they are for content that rarely changes.
What attracts search engines is unique content in posts, not pages that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Search spiders are focused on keywords and keywords phrases in out content ie. in the body text of our Posts. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com 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.Note also that 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
The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/
For Topics (Tags page) searches see http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ This is the syntax http://en/wordpress.com/tags/canada
See here http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/For Google searches use this format and replace “keyword” with whatever word or keyword phrase you wish:
keyword site:wordpress.com/Example search string
Queen Victoria site:wordpress.com
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See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
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Thank you.
I’m very grateful for your time and the information you have given me. I’ll give it the once over. I’m loathe to go to far down my current path if my approach/structure is wrong – I wouldn’t want to have to unpick it to much to improve/change things. -
You are on the right path. All you need to do is to publish posts frequently ie. 2 – 3 times weekly to gain and retain search engine attention.
May I also make another suggestion? Posts tagged with the default category “uncategorized” escape attention. You can replace that default category with one of your own. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#setting-the-default-category
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Then to be specific, pages have far less googlejuice than posts. You can use them, but it’s like entering the Kentucky Derby on a donkey. It will never win.
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