Delete or Make my Website Unpublished

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  mquivedo · Member · Oct 11, 2016 at 9:31 am

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  Hi,

  I’ll be needing some help about my WordPress Website.
  I wanted to delete my site, but I am also thinking if I can just unpublished my website (like make it unsearchable on Google).

  My question is, is that possible to make my current site (iamchill.wordpress.com) unpublished? I don’t want to delete it.

  Thank You!
  Regards,
  Mara Quivedo

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2016 at 5:48 pm

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  To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2016 at 5:49 pm

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  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found):
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1