How to prevent (secondary) webpage from appearing in a Google search result
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A google search for “Brenda Hartman-Souder” lists among many other things her “Directions” page of her website. She’d prefer that NOT come up…feels a bit too accessible. Is there a way to prevent that page from showing up on searches?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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To set page visibility to private see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/
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Thanks. I understand the privacy settings. I want the page to be visible to all visitors to the site, but I was just hoping I could prevent the page from appearing on google (and other) search results. A happy medium perhaps?
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There is no such thing. It’s either public and accessible and available to Google for indexing and accessible everyone else on the internet or it’s private. There is no other option.
What could be done is making that page private, creating a contact form on a page and URL for the private page only to those who use the contact form. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
That said please read on …
IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blog content or making it private does not remove it from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.
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