When will dmariefitzgerald.com appear when I type that into Google?

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  ram1614 · Member · May 4, 2014 at 10:43 pm

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  I purchased my private domain on April 30th and it still is not coming up when I go to Google and type in dmariefitzgerald.com. Isn’t it supposed to appear?

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  iandunn · Member · May 6, 2014 at 6:57 pm

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  Hi, Google and other search engines have over a billion websites to scan for new and updated content, so it can often take a few days or weeks for them to update their indexes.

  When I search for “dmariefitzgerald.com”, though, I do see your site as the first first on Google.

  Please let me know if you have any questions of if there’s anything else I can do.
  Ian

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  ram1614 · Member · May 7, 2014 at 11:06 pm

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  Ian,
  If I type it into the URL it comes up, but not if I just google it.

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  iandunn · Member · May 8, 2014 at 7:09 pm

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  Hi, are you typing “dmariefitzgerald.com” (including the .com part), or “d marie fitzgerald”?

  Typing “dmariefitzgerald.com” shows several pages from the site in the top few listings for me, but search engines sometimes personalize their results based on geographic location, the visitor’s history, etc, so there’s no guarantee that others will see exactly the same results.

  When I search for “d marie fitzgerald”, the site shows up as #5 in the rankings. There’s no way for you or us to directly control how the search engines choose to rank sites, but we do have some advice if you’d like to increase you rankings:

  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

  SEO and Your Blog

  
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/freshly-pressed/