take my site offline

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  saltdominica · Member · Feb 27, 2022 at 12:21 am

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  how can I take my site offline I. dont want any of my blogs to be visible to the public

  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to moderators and staff)

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 27, 2022 at 7:59 am

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  Hi there, if you change your site’s visibility to Private, that will keep it out of search engines and not visible to site visitors. https://wordpress.com/support/settings/privacy-settings/#privacy-options

  However, anything that search engines have already indexed will still be available in search engine returns. It will take a while for them to recrawl and reindex your site. If you want to remove those results, you’ll need to contact each search engine directly and follow their procedures for removing cached content. There’s nothing WordPress.com can do to speed up this process.