how not to get found by search engines
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I don’t want my blog (wordpress.com) to be listed by any of the search engines. I have already set the setting in Privacy to not be visible to search engines, but apparently that wasn’t enough because google found it.
What else can I do to not be found by search engines?
thanks for all suggestions.
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It’s possible that Google found your blog before you set the option.
Unfortunately, it can take Google quite some time to realize that it has been blocked and remove your blog from its index once it has been initially indexed, and we have absolutely no control over that process.
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Also, if you’ve ever put a link to it anywhere like Facebook, etc, then Google will see that link and know the site exists. A lot of time things show up because someone else has posted a link, saying “Check out my friend’s new blog!” or whatever. There’s not much you can do about that.
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You cannot use “anonymity” and “web” in the same sentence, or even in the same room. On the web there really isn’t any anonymity, try as you might. You will be “outed” at some point, it is only a matter of time.
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thanks for all the replys.
The reason I don’t want it indexed in a search engine is that I’ve created an identical blog with it’s own url through WP.org. So, I don’t want to have duplicates of the same blog, one with xxxx.wordpress.com and another xxxx.com. They are both the same thing, idential, except for the url.
I’m now thinking of just dropping or deleting the xxxx.wordpress.com blog.
Anyone know how I can do that? that is, just make the xxxx.wordpress.com blog disappear, go away, fall off the face of the earth? :-)thanks again.
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Why don’t you make the wordpress.com blog a “private” back-up blog and export and import content from your wordpress.org blog periodically into it? That means there is no duplicate content issue.
Yes, you can delete the wordpress.com blog and once deleted the URL cannot be recycled but how is that any advantags to you when it could be a “private” back-up blog?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/ -
I understand what you’re saying, but making the .com blog won’t take it off the search engines listings. Or will it?
I already have it set to “not visible for search engines but others yes” (something like that I’m not in front of it now) yet my blog is listed in google, which is what I want to eliminate.
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Making it private will assure that in 3-6 months it will have disappeared (probably mostly) from the search engines.
The only other way is if you have a Google Webmaster Tools account, you can use their URL removal tool, but I don’t know if you can “wildcard” the requests or not. I believe you would have to put each and every URL into their removal process.
Definitely though make the blog private, don’t just block the search engines. Make it private.
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@terecsi
Make the blog “private” using either option 2 or 3. You CANNOT use the URL removal tool until the URLs produce a “404” (page not found) and that will happen after you change the blog visibility to “private”. Also understand that it’s up to Google to either agree or disagree with your request to remove a huge number of individual URLs. IMHO it’s likely that they will not expedite this early removal from their cache, and the indexed URLs probably will not be removed until they clear their cache about every 3 – 6 months, but I could be wrong.The reason we purchase domain mapping from wordpress.com when we get a wordpress.org install and move our content into it, is so the wordpress.com root blog URLs are sutomatically and seamlessly redirected to the self hosted site’s URLs. But it sounds to me like you did not purchase domain mapping. If so then every visitor who clicks one of the wordpress.com blog URL’s for your posts and pages will see a “404” (page not found).
In case you aren’t aware of this know that the Technorati rank and Google Page Rank achieved by your root blog on wordpress.com belong to that blog URL. They do NOT transfer to your new URL. Assuming your reader base is strong and loyal then it will take at least 6 months to reestablish traffic flow and hopefully get a PR on the new blog (wordpress.org install).
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