Make site private
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Hi, I am trying to make my site private while I build it & there is no option in my dashboard settings to set it to private. Where can I find this?
ThanksThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
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I never do that I leave the visibility public and do not share the URL with anyone at all until I am ready to do so. That is because it takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.
What attracts search engines is unique content in posts (not pages) that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
Lastly note that we cannot assist with search engine issues. They are between the blogger and the search engine. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
We have no control over when Google crawls and updates the SERPs. Note that you Ask Google to re-crawl your URLs https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812?hl=en
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