Websites do not show up on any search engines.
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I am setting up free websites for small mission parishes in North Carolina. These first sites do not show on any search engine.
https://mariareinacatholic.wordpress.com/
https://santateresacatholic.wordpress.com/Your forum says to verify the sites. I verified the sites through Google, but neither of the websites show on Google Search. They also do not appear on Bing or Firefox. What can I do?
The forum also says it may take 60 days at Google, but it has been longer than that. And the other search engines do not show anything.
I checked the ‘public’ site box in the General Privacy settings for both webs.
Do I need to have a paid subscription to be able to have them show on search results?Thank you very much for your time.
Patty Parrish
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Even though you can change your privacy settings (and create great content) so that your site becomes search engine friendly, it’s ultimately always up to the search engines themselves to list your site.
From https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/:
While you can control the basic privacy settings and the content for your blog or website, you cannot control when your site will get picked up by a search engine or how they will rank your site. Those details are up to each search engine, and they are always changing. If you are concerned, you should try to find information from the search engine directly in their help pages to find out what they recommend.
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re: categories and tags
Selective assignment of relevant categories and tags to your posts can attract more views. (Categories and tags can be assigned only to posts, not to pages.)
All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
Search for categories
https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=categories+
Results https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/Search for tags
https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=tags
Results https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/See also: https://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/
The combined total of categories and tags on any post must not exceed 15 or it will not display on Categories and Tags pages and in the WordPress.COM Reader. After removal of the excess categories and/or tags note it may take several days for your posts to begin displaying there and in the Reader.Also, note that posts do not display in the Reader forever. Posts only display in the WordPress.COM Reader for 60 days.
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
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/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/re: wordpress.com blog subscriptions
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.
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 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.
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
Additional information:
You can create a Subscribe page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following
re: social networking
See also:
Publicize https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
Sharing https://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/
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