Why is my site not showing up on a Google search?
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A Google search for my blog page (gotledblog.wordpress.com) yields no results. It’s set up as Public, so why is it not found?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Sometimes it takes a little time for your site’s content to show up in the search engines’ search results.
If it’s any consolation, this question that you posted here in the forum showed up when I Googled your WordPress site.
There’s more info on search engines and WordPress.com here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/Keep up the writing :)
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Yes, that can be frustrating @gotled.
Have you tried going through the steps to verify your site and submit a sitemap to Google Search Console?
https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/That might help speed things up a little. In reality, Google essentially crawls just about every site automatically. This is why you would need to explicitly state for bots not to crawl or index your site in the Privacy Settings.
But again, what shows up in the search results is entirely up to Google. According to this simple illustration, there are over 200 factors that Google considers when ranking a page:
https://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/When I checked the Wayback machine, your site was available, but not indexed yet. I went ahead and added it for you :)
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gotledblog.wordpress.com/Incidentally, you can also try searching Bing and DuckDuckGo as well to see what type of results those search engines yield.
If you are interested, I left a few more SEO resources on this reply to a similar question, that you can also look into
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpress-new-blog-posts-appear-in-google-then-disappear?replies=2#post-2701090
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