Password-protected pages and Google

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  mirmin · Member · Oct 25, 2010 at 9:25 am

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  I was wondering, and I can’t seem to find the answer, if I password protect my pages in wordpress, can google still index the text on the pages? I have to make a blog for my internship, and I don’t want the stuff I write to be found in google.
  Can anyone give me advise? Thanks!

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  westi · Staff · Oct 25, 2010 at 10:38 am

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  If you password protect a post the password has to be entered before the post can be read so Google won’t see it.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/

  You can also change the privacy settings on your blog to stop search engines indexing the content or make it completely private:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/