Blog disobeying privacy settings–how to fisx?
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Why is my WordPress blog showing up in Google when I have specifically chosen the option to keep it private from search engines?
I have a new WordPress blog, hosted by WordPress, that I’d like to keep from being indexed by search engines if possible. Under Settings: Privacy, I have selected “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors”. I have also password-protected all posts.
Yet the blog is showing up in Google. I put my own name in a post to see if it would show up, and a Google search for my name brings up the post, plus the usual Google blurb of one or two lines before or after where my name appears in the post. When you click through, you cannot read the post because of the password protection, but I’m troubled that the blog posts are being indexed b y Google when I’ve specified that they not be, and also that excerpts from my password-protected posts are showing up in the Google results. Please help! (Hosting the blog on my own server is not an option.)
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Please contact Support and send every detail – we need exactly what you are searching for, how, what you see, where you see it.
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Posting to Metafilter will not help – we can, but we need every single detail.
Without that we cannot help. -
Of course, if someone created a link to your blog, that would put it on the search engines’ radar. Some people do, even if you’ve password-protected it.
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