WordPress.com Forums » Tag: google search - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/google-search WordPress.com Forums » Tag: google search - Recent Posts en Fri, 24 May 2013 18:08:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Remove Traces of Old Pages?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/remove-traces-of-old-pages#post-1266468 Wed, 15 May 2013 17:40:29 +0000 timethief 1266468@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome and best wishes.

]]> guitarwizard93 on "Remove Traces of Old Pages?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/remove-traces-of-old-pages#post-1266425 Wed, 15 May 2013 17:18:34 +0000 guitarwizard93 1266425@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Damn it... OK thanks! I've gone through and made sure all the trash is emptied so all I have on my site now ("deleted" and live) is only what I want, now for Google to clear their cache.. Great :P

Thanks!

]]> timethief on "Remove Traces of Old Pages?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/remove-traces-of-old-pages#post-1266415 Wed, 15 May 2013 17:11:31 +0000 timethief 1266415@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blog content or a blog does not remove indexed content in it from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 - 6 months.

If you don't have a lot of content you can quickly remove your contents by deleting them in bulk.
bulk delete images & media http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/deleting-files/#bulk-deletion
bulk delete posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit
bulk delete pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/#bulk-edit
Here's how to permanently delete Trash >
http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#deleting-permanently

]]> guitarwizard93 on "Remove Traces of Old Pages?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/remove-traces-of-old-pages#post-1266409 Wed, 15 May 2013 17:09:02 +0000 guitarwizard93 1266409@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've been working on a website for a guitar shop, which basically involved logging into the dashboard and deleting all the old pages, and I started from scratch from there to maintain the same account and domain mapping etc...

However, even though I deleted all the old pages, Google's first results for my website are pages that no longer exist such as "Recent Posts" and things like that. Is there a way to totally wipe traces of these old pages? Photos still appear on Google images as well... I basically just want to have a totally clean slate!

]]> stonenick on "Remove author's name from Google search results" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/remove-authors-name-from-google-search-results#post-1261418 Fri, 10 May 2013 07:45:54 +0000 stonenick 1261418@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there,

I manage 2 WordPress.com blogs: meeg.org and eaunritchie.org - both on behalf of other people. (Dustin and Ean, respectively).

I have just noticed that my name (Nick) appears in Google search results for either site.

I don't want my name to appear as the 'author' of these blogs. I would prefer no author, or (at least) Dustin / Eaun.

There seems to be lots of (confusing) information about linking Google+ profiles and adding profile pictures, but I would actually prefer to remain a bit more anonymous!

Cheers, Nick

]]> timethief on "why my blog does not show up in wordpress search?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-my-blog-does-not-show-up-in-wordpress-search#post-1223275 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:34:59 +0000 timethief 1223275@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This blog has very little content as yet http://wolframvonostheim.wordpress.com/ Is it the blog you mean?

The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

It can take weeks for search engines to index your blog. It's publishing posts, not pages that attracts search engine attention.

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/

For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

]]> wolframvonostheim on "why my blog does not show up in wordpress search?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-my-blog-does-not-show-up-in-wordpress-search#post-1223239 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:55:24 +0000 wolframvonostheim 1223239@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have recently posted a new blog in wordpress.com, but it does not appear as a result when searching for it in wordpress search using the tags I have set up.

I do not know if it has been flaged as mature or not.

I do not know if it has been considered to violate some copyright, since it contains a poem that uses the lyrics of several songs including Darlington County by Bruce Springsteen, Waiting for a Train by Jerry Lee Lewis and Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones. In this case it would be my best intention to rewrite the poem file and to include copyright notices about these authors at the end of the poem.

I even do not know if it has been considerad as offensive for someone, since it also contains the lyrics of the national anthem of Germany. In this case I sincerely apologize for posible damages to anyone, but I think this would not be a sufficient argument to rule out the poem.

Finally I would like to thank you very much for your kind attention

]]> timethief on "How to prevent (secondary) webpage from appearing in a Google search result" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-prevent-secondary-webpage-from-appearing-in-a-google-search-result#post-1183229 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:09:33 +0000 timethief 1183229@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ edit: missing word
and providing URL for the private page

]]> timethief on "How to prevent (secondary) webpage from appearing in a Google search result" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-prevent-secondary-webpage-from-appearing-in-a-google-search-result#post-1183227 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:08:35 +0000 timethief 1183227@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is no such thing. It's either public and accessible and available to Google for indexing and accessible everyone else on the internet or it's private. There is no other option.

What could be done is making that page private, creating a contact form on a page and URL for the private page only to those who use the contact form. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

That said please read on ...

IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blog content or making it private does not remove it from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 - 6 months.

]]> markhartmansouder on "How to prevent (secondary) webpage from appearing in a Google search result" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-prevent-secondary-webpage-from-appearing-in-a-google-search-result#post-1183223 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:02:42 +0000 markhartmansouder 1183223@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks. I understand the privacy settings. I want the page to be visible to all visitors to the site, but I was just hoping I could prevent the page from appearing on google (and other) search results. A happy medium perhaps?

]]> timethief on "How to prevent (secondary) webpage from appearing in a Google search result" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-prevent-secondary-webpage-from-appearing-in-a-google-search-result#post-1182824 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:18:35 +0000 timethief 1182824@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ To set page visibility to private see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

]]> markhartmansouder on "How to prevent (secondary) webpage from appearing in a Google search result" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-prevent-secondary-webpage-from-appearing-in-a-google-search-result#post-1182804 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:07:42 +0000 markhartmansouder 1182804@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ A google search for "Brenda Hartman-Souder" lists among many other things her "Directions" page of her website. She'd prefer that NOT come up...feels a bit too accessible. Is there a way to prevent that page from showing up on searches?

]]> lifeofalovergirl on "Blog disappeared from Google search" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-disappeared-from-google-search-1#post-1177246 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:55:12 +0000 lifeofalovergirl 1177246@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks. I do have quite a few pics and videos on my blog. Who knows? I am disappointed though :/. At least I still get an occasional hit from Yahoo search, lol. :P

]]> timethief on "Blog disappeared from Google search" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-disappeared-from-google-search-1#post-1176803 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:28:42 +0000 timethief 1176803@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ See here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/02/01/google-image-search-redesign-raises-ire/ but note that I'm not saying this is the reason in your case. In fact there was a Penguin and Panda update and there was a page rank update as well.
Bottom line: We can only speculate.

]]> lifeofalovergirl on "Blog disappeared from Google search" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-disappeared-from-google-search-1#post-1176801 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:25:45 +0000 lifeofalovergirl 1176801@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ugh! Thanks for letting me know that though, that makes sense.

]]> raincoaster on "Blog disappeared from Google search" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-disappeared-from-google-search-1#post-1176798 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:24:22 +0000 raincoaster 1176798@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you search the forums you will see that Google recently redid the way they search and now they have seriously downgraded Wp.com blogs. My hits are off by a good 40%.

]]> lifeofalovergirl on "Blog disappeared from Google search" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-disappeared-from-google-search-1#post-1176793 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:17:57 +0000 lifeofalovergirl 1176793@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's frustrating. I thought someone might have an idea what was going on but thank you!!

]]> timethief on "Blog disappeared from Google search" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-disappeared-from-google-search-1#post-1176792 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:15:49 +0000 timethief 1176792@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We can't help you with any search engine issues here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

]]> lifeofalovergirl on "Blog disappeared from Google search" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-disappeared-from-google-search-1#post-1176791 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:15:03 +0000 lifeofalovergirl 1176791@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hey until a few days ago my blog was getting a lot of traffic from google searches. It showed up as the first or second search result when you googled things like "swinger party" or "my first swinger party" or "swinger party gone wrong". I noticed I wasn't getting near as much traffic recently and tried googling myself and I can't even find my blog on there at all now? What could have happened?

]]> timethief on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics-1#post-1160985 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:39:24 +0000 timethief 1160985@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

]]> cmaule on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics-1#post-1160984 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:38:36 +0000 cmaule 1160984@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Makes sense. Will use Google search from now on.

]]> timethief on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics-1#post-1160981 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:36:10 +0000 timethief 1160981@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ WordPress.com is a blogging platform with a search utility for in house use; it's not a search engine. All the posts under categories and tags are there but having over 35 million of us using the Topics pages to search the history of any tag would be a huge waste of resources. Google's in the search engine business. They have zillions of server farms and the information is all available there.

]]> cmaule on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics-1#post-1160959 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:10:47 +0000 cmaule 1160959@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OK, plenty of references via Google search.

Out of interest, using the approach I use, does WordPress only keep tag references for a certain time period? If so, why?

Thanks

]]> timethief on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics-1#post-1160938 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:48:41 +0000 timethief 1160938@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I use Google search.
For Google searches use this format and replace "keyword" with whatever word you wish:
keyword site:wordpress.com/

Example search string
Queen Victoria site:wordpress.com
results > http://tinyurl.com/csaobsx

]]> cmaule on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics-1#post-1160935 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:46:20 +0000 cmaule 1160935@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you again!

I contact the following site http://wordpress.com/#!/read/edit/
and one of my tag topics is British Empire. There are a number of tags for this topic but they go back for one month and three weeks and nothing earlier.

Is it possible to access earlier British Empire postings this way, or do I have to enter a site another way to get earlier postings?

Best regards

]]> timethief on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics-1#post-1160107 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:59:23 +0000 timethief 1160107@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ For Topics (Tags page) searches see http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ This is the syntax http://en/wordpress.com/tags/canada

The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

For Google searches use this format and replace "keyword" with whatever word you wish:
keyword site:wordpress.com/

Example search string
Queen Victoria site:wordpress.com
results > http://tinyurl.com/csaobsx

]]> cmaule on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics-1#post-1159913 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:35:22 +0000 cmaule 1159913@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ When I tag a topic I find the most recent postings on the topic but not older ones. How do I find and access older ones?

]]> cmaule on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics#post-1154759 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:47:07 +0000 cmaule 1154759@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How do I find tag topics which are older than the ones that I can access online? For example I follow British Empire. The oldest tags are one month. How do I access older than one month for British Empire?

]]> timethief on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics#post-1147922 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:08:31 +0000 timethief 1147922@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yay! Best wishes for happy haunting and a lovely weekend.

]]> cmaule on "Tags for topics" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tags-for-topics#post-1147920 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:07:25 +0000 cmaule 1147920@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks. I have found the path to desired topics.

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