hide wordpress site

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  sweetyippie · Member · Oct 15, 2018 at 5:39 am

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  Hi, is it possible to hide my wordpress website? I do not want it public at the moment, but when I do a google search, I see it.

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

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  ravichahar · Member · Oct 15, 2018 at 6:11 am

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  Hey sweetyippie,

  You can set the privacy settings to private by navigating to My Sites>>Settings>>Privacy.

  Please check this out.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  For the pages indexed in Google, we have no control. But when you make your site private, no blog post will get indexed, the site will be completely private.

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  floflo56 · Member · Oct 15, 2018 at 6:21 am

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  Hi Sweetyippie

  To add to what Ravichahar said, if you want to remove existing content from Google, here is some information about search engines and how they work with WordPress.com :
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  You can ask Google to remove your website from their search engine by using this tool :
  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

  I hope this will help :)

  Florent