Can I create web pages and blogs before I make them live?
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I need to create a landing page for my company and I need to set up a blog. But I don’t want to make is publicly accessible until my product is ready in about another 8 weeks.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can set your site to Private from your Dashboard
Settings > Reading > Site Visibility
Select the third option: I would like my site to be private, visible only to users I choose
Save changes and you’re good to go. Once you get your site created, reverse the process.
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I’m just adding a comment to illuminate an aspect you may not have considered. It takes weeks for Google to index site content in any new blog or any blog with URL change.
raincoaster and I do not make new blogs visibility private . We do not tell anyone they exist and keep the visibility public. That way it doesn’t take weeks after removing the privacy setting to publish, publish, and publish in order to drive the search result privacy setting indexing found in Google’s SERPS (search engine page results) down the page.
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Timethief,
Just so I understand, you say you keep everything public from the get go. When you are ready to go public you don’t change a single setting, you just start chatting it up. Do I have this right?
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Yes that’s what both raincoaster and I do but we do not refer to the new sites we register anywhere online so there is no rush of visitors to any site that’s not ready for them. Granted that doesn’t prevent anyone from stumbling across them, but IMO it’s a better option than private visibility is.
Another option is to leave the blog public but create a static front page and do not provide any navigation to go more deeply into the blog until the last moment. However,I don’t recommend that to anyone who is not already adapt at WordPress.com blogging.
By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/What attracts search engines is unique content in posts, not pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. For more information on getting indexed read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
The rule of thumb is to assign the least, not the most, combined number of only relevant categories and tags that accurately describe the post content. For tips on tagging see > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
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P.S. Staff have linked a helpful step by step learn wordpress.com blogging to the bottom of our Admin pages on our blogs. The URL is http://learn.wordpress.com
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