Changing my site to private
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I am wanting to change my blog to Private so it can’t be viewed by the public, found in Google, etc. I changed the setting to make it private but if I go to google and search, it is still coming up as a result. How can this be fixed?? I want to invite specific viewers and not have it just found by anyone in the public.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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but if I go to google and search, it is still coming up as a result. How can this be fixed?
You cannot change that. This is a result of trying to access your blog.
https://theflintfamilyblog.wordpress.com/ is marked private by its owner. You can:
Request access to view the site. We’ll send your username to the site owner for their approval.
Log out and sign in as different user. You’re logged in as ‘timethief’.
Learn about privacy settings. -
You can have either a public or a private blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/The software needs to know the difference between hackers and your friends, who have an account and are logged in, and who do have user roles on the blog in order for them to post to it. Registering an account requires only an email address and agreeing to the Terms of Service.
The person will have to register a username account but does not need to register a blog. They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.
Note that users who create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.
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Google has its own set of tools for removing your information from search results. Go to Google and search with: remove your site from google . They have been very helpful in the past.
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