Blog hidden from search engines and shows up anyway in results…
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Can you please explain me why my blog is supposed to be hidden from search engines and why i can still find it? txs
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Did you turn off indexing from your settings page? Here’s how to: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
If you had created your blog allowing search engines to index your site but updated the privacy settings later (at a recent time), then it will take some time (perhaps a few days) until your blog disappears from search engines. In other words, it takes some time for search engines to de-index your site and pages.
So if you recently turned off this feature (Discouraged search engines to index your site), please wait a few more days until the change takes effect from search engine end.
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You need to make it private because it’s public now. To change blog visibility to Private go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Site Visibility and choose option 3
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ -
If the blog was ever set to allow search engines in – the results will take some time for their cache to clear – searching on your blog name shows 3 results – one for your blog and two for this thread – so not much of your site is indexed
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