Blog linked to my full name
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Hello
I’ve recently noticed that this blog comes up when I Google my name.
My blog contains lots of personal information, so I have deliberately kept it anonymous. Wondering why it is associated with/linked to my name in search results, and how to change this?Many thanks
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Hi there,
Of what blog are you speaking?
The only way any site can appear in Google searches when you search your full name, is if your full name appears somewhere on the site, or if you’re otherwise linking to sites that have your full name.
Google is also very good at connecting the dots and using snippets of information about you on different websites to build a profile of you.
If you don’t want this to happen, you can hide your site from search engines (under My Site ->Manage ->Settings), and new content on the site won’t be indexed. However, if the site has been public for a while and is already indexed, any info Google has already collected is likely to remain in their index indefinitely. You’ll need to contact Google directly to find out if it’s possible to remove that info from their end.
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Hi,
Thanks for your help and quick response.
I thought that might be the case.
I don’t really want to hide it, I just don’t want it be to be linked to my full name.Sounds like might be impossible to change without making it private :-(
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One way is to make it Private: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Another is to create a new more anonymized WordPress.com account, then transfer the site to that account: https://wordpress.com/support/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/ (this way, you can keep the site public and remove any direct relation to you)
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