Blog Privacy
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I’d like to have my blog not be seen by the search engines, but accessible to people who directly type in a link to my blog. I know there’s a setting for this under “Options->Privacy”, but there is one case not mentioned in any of the privacy settings: if WordPress.com readers use the little right and left arrow buttons in the upper corners of the page to browse among WordPress blogs, will they eventually get to my blog? (I’d rather not have that happen…again, I only want people who type in my URL directly to see my blog.)
Thanks.
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Maybe the admins can label your blog as an “adult” blog. I know labeling your blog adult will take you off tags and lists. I don’t know about that feature on WordPress though. Best bet would be sending in a feedback and asking if an adult blog would also be featured on that, which I doubt it is.
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If it’s an adult blog you can’t come to it by just hitting “next blog” so that would work perfectly as far as I can see.
There are, of course, other ways people could come to your blog. When you’re signed in and you comment or leave a post here in the forum, your signature is a link to your blog. You can change that if you want on your Dashboard.
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Oh yeah, that too. I edited my profile here on the forum at the top and took out the url link of my blog.
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I have multiple blogs, one personal and one for work. (To answer raincoaster’s earlier comment, my signature on these forums links to my personal blog, and that’s fine.) The one I’m trying to protect is my work-related blog, and I’d just as soon avoid the stigma of having it labeled as “adult.”
So it sounds like there’s no way to do this? (In the past what I’ve done is to create a single user that is allowed to read my work blog, then hand out the username and password to people I want to see my blog. But I’d like to be able to just simply send them a link vs. giving them the username and password to use.)
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My blog is an “adult” blog but no one knows it except now because I’m saying it. lol There’s no stigma to it. And my blog isn’t even a real adult blog.
How about password protecting it?
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It’s not like there’s a web page listing “adult” blogs on WordPress. Nobody will find out the official status; it’s just a feature, really. It works for both sexual content sites and sites that want a certain level of privacy.
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Okay, maybe an ‘adult’ blog is the way to go. (I had assumed that when you visited an adult blog, there was some sort of warning that told you it was such.)
How do you request this status?
Thanks for your help.
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i don’t believe the ‘next blog’ button will lead you to blogs hidden from global tags. i don’t have any special knowledge to base that on.
if you want to be listed as mature, go to your own blog, and in the blue bar on top, far right, under ‘blog info’ click ‘Report as Mature’, and then explain your situation in the form that comes up.
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I had assumed that when you visited an adult blog, there was some sort of warning that told you it was such.
Those are usually porn sites that for legal reasons, have a form come up saying to click this if you’re over 18. But you can send in a feedback asking to be labeled adult and a link to the site if it’s different than the link on your display name on here in the forum. Or what sunburntkamel suggested.
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When you happen to get to a marked “Mature” site, there is no automatic message from WordPress. I know because my blog got marked as Mature for a couple of days, and the only way I found out was hits went through the floor and I vanished from Most Recently Updated.
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Gotta admit that that kind of annoys me as well.
I’m still trying to get staff to recognize that getting responses on Feedbacks without mentioning which feedback they’re replying to is an issue as well.
*sigh*
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