How can I hide my blog in search engines?

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  jenheemann · Member · Sep 30, 2014 at 12:56 am

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  My blog is hidden in wordpress, but when I search for my name in google, the blog is one of the firsts results – even though is hidden. I don’t want the blog visible anymore.

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 30, 2014 at 2:09 am

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  Then you will have to contact Google about that. Assuming on the Settings->Reading page it’s set not to allow indexing from search engines, what has happened is that some other website has linked to yours. Google sees the link and follows it and that’s how you get indexed. Usually this is a friend of yours on Facebook or somewhere saying “go check out Jen’s New Blog!” and there is nothing you can do about that.

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  jenheemann · Member · Sep 30, 2014 at 1:04 pm

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  Thank you, raincoaster.

  Hmmm I made a new test now. I logged out of wordpress and then wrote the blog’s url on the browser… and it showed.

  It’s still working, isn’t it? =/