Hide a page from the search engines

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  krapo · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 5:15 pm

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  Hi everyone,

  I would like a page to be visible only to people who have the url. This means it should not appear on search engines, including the one on WordPress.com.

  I already hid it from the navigation with a custom menu but I need it to be impossible to find with a search engine.

  Thanks!

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

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  airodyssey · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 5:18 pm

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  Hi. In Settings > Privacy, you can select to have your entire site visible for search engines, or nothing visible. There’s no “In-between”. Doing that would require the ability to edit the “robots.txt” file for search engines, which we cannot do here at WordPress.com.

  How about setting a password-protected page?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

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  krapo · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 5:25 pm

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  Thanks for taking the time to reply. A password-protected page would not work from me. In fact what I am trying to do is to set up a page especially for people I have Streetpassed with my Nintendo 3DS, and the personal message space on the system is very short, just enough for only the shortened url of the page.

  I guess I will have to stick with this version and just hope not too many people will find it.

  Thanks again!

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  airodyssey · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 5:31 pm

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  You’re welcome. Another solution would be to create an additional blog with the “Search engines blocked” option.

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  krapo · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 5:36 pm

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  This is a great idea, however my goal is also to bring people to discover my blog.

  Thank you again.