Hide from Google?

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  ardpete · Member · Oct 18, 2011 at 12:02 pm

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  Is there any way of hiding your blog from showing up in Google and other search engine searches?

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

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 18, 2011 at 12:41 pm

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  You can adjust your privacy settings:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  >>Ask search engines not to index this site. –
  >>I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose –

  But it’s possible that someone will quote from, or link to, a site for which indexing has been blocked. And some search engines may not obey the “do not index” code.

  If you make a formerly public blog private, then posts are still likely cached in search engines and would be available as cached views for some time.

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  ardpete · Member · Oct 18, 2011 at 12:45 pm

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  That’s great, thank you!! :D

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 18, 2011 at 12:48 pm

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  You are welcome.