How to hide my wordpress blog from google blog search?
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So under preferences, I put “no search engines allowed”. But my blog still ends up on google blog search. Is there a way to prevent this? I don’t want to private my blog since it would mean that some people would be too lazy to log on and would stop visiting it.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It ends up in Google because you either went live before changing that setting or people you know have linked to you, by for instance posting links to Facebook or linking from their own blogs. Short of asking them not to, there isn’t any way to get those links out. Afraid you’re stuck.
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If no others have linked to you, and it is just because the blog was indexed before you changed to block the search engines, then within 3-6 months, you should drop out of the search engines – mostly. I’ve had a blog set to private for nearly two years now, and it still shows up in searches. Probably old links to it from other blogs and such.
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I believe the only way to make a blog truly invisible is make it private & password protect it the second you start it before ever writing anything before it gets indexed by search engines.
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If you have already tried enabling : Settings -> Privacy -> Privacy settings { Select “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors” }
Probably the old entries will be still on the search. To remove them you might try the followingRegister your blog with google webmaster tools, and then go to Site Configuration -> Crawler access -> Remove URL and try removing the indexed urls
Read :
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=20985As far as i see your robots.txt file of your blog : http://simfishthoughts.wordpress.com/robots.txt
It has no rule blocking the entire website, and has the default set of rules. Make sure you have the “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors” option as told above. The robots.txt will have an entry
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
This will disallow all the crawlers to index your site. -
Woah! When i was writing the last comment it was only raincoaster’s reply!
Probably the best is to make the site password protected before it is made online if it is private.
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