Privacy of my blog
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I had set my blog as “I would like my site to be private, visible only to users I choose” and I didn’t give permission to anyone. However, when I check the site stats, there is still someone viewing my home page. Why and how do I block this ?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you are clicking on the stats icon on your admin bar, then with a private blog, your own visits will be logged.
Also, you should know that staff can look at all of our blogs, private or not. But it’s most likely you are looking at your own visits to your private blog.
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but… there is referrer shown at the site stats. Further, didn’t wordpress said it won’t track our own visit. Sorry, I’m just confused.
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They did say that wp.com does not track your own visits (support documents may not have been updated???—I’m a fellow blogger, volunteer moderator, so I don’t really have inside scoop), but I think that with a private blog they recently changed that so your own visits do appear in your stats.
If you have a referrer from someplace else, other than you or a staff person, then I wonder if your blog was ever public? Some of my blogs are currently private but were at one time public. I see references to some of my images and posts even though the blogs are now private, or password protected. I suspect they appear because, for example Google allows people to look at cached sites and images.
When staff is back on Monday you could contact them about the issue. I’m a bit curious too: the spammy links I see seem to be mostly on some weird experimental stuff I was doing a couple of years ago, with just square black images so I’ve not been very concerned about the issue.
curious…
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Thanks a lot for the advise. I’ll contact the support staff on Monday. What concern to me is that, if there is security features lacking, I might think of to close the blog. This is my personal diary and do not wish to share with anyone.
Thanks again.
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Hi People, im new here, I jumped on the forum as my blog site is coming up in google searches when i set my privacy not to. I am concerned. Could the problem be more widespread?
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@fionahitchcock: Please refer to http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/ (second question)
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@fionahitchcock: The blog linked to your username is accessible to search engines without any problem at all, as per http://fionahitchcock.wordpress.com/robots.txt
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Sorry I don’t understand as far as I am concerned where the option is given i have blocked internet search engines, but he blog is still searchable.
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@fionahitchcock: What’s the address of the blog you are asking about? When you go to Settings > Privacy, which option is checked?
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I have checked
I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors
and the address is
http://rubysroadtrip.wordpress.com
I am a little upset, i do nto want pp l to be able to ‘google’ it or otherwise. -
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@fionahitchcock
If you set your blog as open to public view but not search engines, then there are several ways it might become more public than you intend.
If someone reads your blog, a friend of yours for example, then that person can copy and paste pictures and text from you to their own blog or facebook or twitter. In such a case, that information could well become part of the great ocean of google (or other search engines).
Perhaps you want to mark your blog as private and invite only very close friends who you trust with your darkest secrets to read. (But even one of them could post about you.)
It is not a leak of privacy related to the care wp.com takes.
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Thats not the issue. The blog comes up on a random google search of any relevant words. Such as Ruby’s trip.
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One other thought about privacy:
even pen and paper are not completely “safe.”My mother-in-law died unexpectedly, and we children found a notebook she’d written in about twins she gave up as a young woman. None of us second generation people (children) had ever suspected a thing! But she had written something, and probably forgot about it, then died before she destroyed it. Secrets will come out. In this case, it has been very good: welcome to the family to the boys! happy ending…
My parents left a house unexpectedly, with lots of papers, and while they didn’t have such dramatic secrets, there were things I’d suspect they didn’t intend for us children to read.
Point is, if you don’t want anyone to find out about something you do, then absolutely don’t post it online! Even pencil and paper notes can become known.
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Yeah I respect what your saying, however, I believe your response is a little overboard.
I am here to use a service and came on to the forums to solve an issue. Not to complain or get lectured on keeping my business my own.
I happen to be a professional journalist and like what wordpress has to offer so far. Thank you for your time I shall look else where for the solution. -
@fionahitchcock
I just did a Google of “ruby’s trip” and there was no sign of your site listed on page 1, 2, or 3.
Yes, google does customize searches.
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I was not trying to lecture. and I did not think you were complaining. and I also appreciate WordPress.com.
I just searched google with “164 Volvo ruby’s road trip”
and your site does come up on page 1.
but the link results like this:404. That’s an error.
The requested URL /search?q=cache:2yB5XG6SdTEJ:rubysroadtrip.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/hello-world/+164+Volvo+ruby’s+road+trip&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari&source=www.google.com was not found on this server. That’s all we know.As I said above, I am curious.
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Also keep in mind that while Google and the other major search engines are fairly well behaved – not all search engines pay attention the the robots.txt exclusion settings –
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