Please forgive me if something along these lines has already been answered…

On June 14, I started my NBA blog on WordPress. I know that “sports” is a pretty hard niche to break into, but I’ve been covering the league for several seasons now, racking up millions of views on other websites. This summer, I decided to go independent. I have 159 posts published on my site so far, and have been linked/referenced on sites like Yahoo, Sporting News, and Sports Illustrated. Through Twitter, I’ve been able to amass 167 subscribers to my newsletter.

However, Google isn’t indexing me. I’ve submitted a sitemap, manually submitted each post’s URL, and nothing. 64 pages are “Crawled - currently not indexed.” More are “Discovered - currently not indexed.” Before you ask, the box that says “discourage search engines from seeing my content” has been unchecked in the WordPress dash.

I also link to between three and six posts in every new article I write, so my internal linking should be solid. Again, I’ve been cited by other sites, which should help speak to “quality” and “authority,” right?

Is there something I’m missing? Why am I not showing up in search? When I do a “site:EnterNameHere” search in Google, only my home page shows up.

Worth noting that most of my views on past sites were from organic search/Google Discover, so I was hoping to find similar (although smaller) success.