Privacy of my blog

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 29, 2011 at 8:19 am

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  Setting your blog to be invisible to search engines means your blog is not “spidered” as they usually are. The search engines will ignore it UNTIL…

  your blog receives an incoming link from an external source. Once that happens, the blog will be noticed and get into search engines. You’d get an error like that if, for instance, that post was on the front page of the blog when the blog was linked, but NOT on the front page when someone tried to follow the link from Google. The search engine would have an out of date version of your blog, a snapshot it took at the time someone linked to it, and that’s all.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 29, 2011 at 2:28 pm

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  Rain: Thank you. That makes sense.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 29, 2011 at 6:24 pm

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  You’re welcome. If people really want to be invisible to search engines completely, they need to set the blog to Private from day one.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 29, 2011 at 6:30 pm

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  Agreed. Even if it is a “private” blog the only way to maintain absolute privacy is not to share the link to it with ANYONE at all and do not link to ANY sites from it at all.

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  wank · Member · Aug 29, 2011 at 8:37 pm

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  The only way to maintain absolute privacy is not to blog on someone else’s server.

  I have had staff access my dashboard without my permission in the past. It’s not an everyday event by any means but it can happen.