Remove my site from Search Results

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  halisee · Member · Feb 1, 2017 at 8:48 am

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  I would like to keep my site, but I do not want it to appear in search results unless someone types in the URL. Anything I can do?

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Feb 1, 2017 at 2:30 pm

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  Hi there,

  I see that you have already selected the option to discourage search engines from indexing your site, but as it mentions, it is up to search engines to honor that request.

  It’s up to Google to decide when and how to include/remove pages from search results, WordPress.com doesn’t have any control over that. For more information you can read our FAQ about search engines here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  You can try requesting removal from Google by following the instructions here:
  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92865

  Google also provides information and tools for webmasters, you might find further information on their tools here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/

  Let me know if you have any questions.

  Thanks!