why can't people find my blog?

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  outsideofthesandbox · Member · Sep 10, 2013 at 11:47 pm

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  Hi I just started my blog on here. When I google it, it doesn’t come up..why is that? My friend is trying to add it to a site called bloglovin so she can get notified every time I post, but she doesn’t find it in the search either. IS there a way to switch my blog from private to public?

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

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 11, 2013 at 12:00 am

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  http://outsideofthesandbox.wordpress.com/ – loads fine for me – picture of a person with dark hair at the top

  you have a new blog with only three posts – it takes 4 to 6 weeks for search engines to index a new site and that is only if there is content worth indexing on it

  searching on “What is Outside the [sand]Box?” without the quotes gives 5 million hits – tough to find you in that – add the quotes and Google does know who you are

  DON’T have people search for you – just send them the URL (address) of your blog

  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/ – has great tips on how to get started blogging

  bottom line – blog more!

  also add the Subscribe Widget so your friends can subscribe to your blog and be told when you put something new on your blog

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  monmon · Member · Sep 11, 2013 at 12:50 am

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  Go to google.com/addurl and add your blog and each individual post’ urls to will help the indexing of your blog. Plus make sure to write regularly. :)

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  timethief · Member · Sep 11, 2013 at 12:54 am

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  @outsideofthesandbox
  Your blog visibility settings ie. privacy settings are here > Settings > Reading

  What attracts search engines is unique content the cannot in posts that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information on expediting indexing read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

  The process we use for verifying free hosted WordPress.com blogs with search engines is found here > 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 provides the search engines with site maps. We bloggers do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps