WordPress.com SEO not so great?

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    thejadezone · Member ·

    For a couple of months now I’ve had two wordpress.com blogs and two wordpress.org blogs.

    In every single post on each blog I put my name in the title of the post and in the body of the post. I also have my name in the site tagline.

    Obviously with the wordpress.org blogs I am able to go further by putting my name as a keyword using the SEO by Yoast Plugin.

    However, when I do a Google search of my name, not one single post from my wordpress.com blogs appear in the Google search results. The site title doesn’t appear, the site doesn’t appear, the blog posts don’t appear. Nothing. Nada. Meanwhile, my wordpress.org blogs do appear here and there.

    If I search for the exact blog site title then it does appear, but if I simply search for my name, nothing, nada. Again, I put my name in the title of every single post and in the body of every single article. And in the tagline of the site as well. Yet Google cant find my wordpress.com blogs or blog posts if I search using my name. And I have a one of a kind name. In other words my name is not Mr. Smith.

    I am therefore under the impression that wordpress.com SEO is not as great as claimed…Am I wrong?

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    timethief · Member ·

    Yes IMHO and based on my own experience re: WordPress.COM blogs and WordPress.ORG installs running that plugin, you are wrong.

    That plugin cannot be used on any WordPress.COM hosted blog. There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

    The good news is that WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.`
    Read http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
    https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/

    This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture. We WordPress.COM bloggers cannot access metadata. But its of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. These days search engines pay more attention to your keywords in your content than they do to your keywords in metatags.
    http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/
    http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/12/05/keyword-power-in-the-blogging-world/

    Notes: 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 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

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    timethief · Member ·

    BTW your site is being indexed by Google.

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    thejadezone · Member ·

    Thanks for the reply TT, as always!! :)

    However, I am not referring to any meta tags. I simply throw my name in the blog post title and the blog post itself. I also throw in a link in every post to my About Page in an attempt to have Google see that as cornerstone content. Naturally my About Page has my name throughout it as well.

    All 4 of my blogs (both of the wp.com and both of the wp.org) are verified in both Bing and Google webmaster tools. There is shows that the sites have been indexed.

    Yet, when I do a search by simply using my name nothing comes up. I simply don’t get it. I know I don’t have a lot of followers, or posts, or back links…but I just figured that since my name is in every blog post title, in every blog post article body, in the site tagline and in the About Page which is linked to from every post as cornerstone content, I just figured that somehow if I did a search using my name in google it would at least find one article or atleast show my blog title in the results. At least something instead of absolutely nothing…

    I guess I’m not really impressed with Google after all as Bing seems to do better…Maybe Google is not such a great search engine in the end…

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