Hey Kyle! Thank you for your kind words!

Not much traction yet, I'm at 60% site trust so far, no traffic other than the odd family/ friend who has liked my business page on Facebook.

However, this could be because 98% of my keywords are 10<10, rather than "high traffic" ones.

@MattEllis Aww thank you, Matt! :)

Hello Carson!

Thank you for your kind words on my blog post!

I am seeing my posts being indexed when I look in Google Search Console, but, I haven't exactly figured out how to really utilize Google Search Console to its full potential as of yet.

It's a little confusing, haha!

I do get an e-mail once in awhile though, saying that one of my articles has been indexed in Google.

-Cal

@Carson Also, is there a certain number of comments we should aim for on each article?

Should I request 2 by default or would one be enough per article at the moment/ will help the article indexed? Just wondered.

Thanks! :)

It's a good idea to learn Google Search Console as it's how you determine what Google thinks of your website.

Here is a class that is part of an entire series that explains everything from installing Analytics and Search Console, to uncovering detailed reports etc, it's a must watch:

The series is here: Google Analytics & Search Console The specific Class on Learning Search Console is here: Beginners Guide to Google Search Console Carson

Well, the more engagement you have the better, and make sure that you respond thoroughly to all of the comments that you get.

Comments are great to have on your posts, but you want Google to see new comments when it returns. So although getting a couple comments right off out of the gate is great, you'll want to have some more comments added over time. Updating your content (comments counts), is something that tells the crawling scheduler to come back to your website. So the more that happens, the more Google comes back and more opportunity it has to find more pages/posts, and see that your posts are being regularly updated with new quality content.

I'd first want to ensure that Google is indexing your posts and you can do that by looking at Google Search Console :)

@Carson, thank you for all that information. That is very good to know! I have been responding very thoroughly to all the comments I receive.

Good to know that Google values more "new" content, or "updates" on content, I didn't know that previously.

I currently have 36 articles indexed according to the site manager in WA, when I look in GSC some of my articles are indexed but, they say "index error."

Now, sometimes those errors fix themselves seemingly, oddly enough, I'm not sure what can be done on my part to fix it on Google's behalf though.

If you have any thoughts on that, I'm all ears! :)