"Turning off" blog without deletion

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  rebeccawainright · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 12:18 am

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  I would like to essentially “turn off” my blog for the time being but I don’t want to delete it. Is there a way to make my blog and it’s pages not accessible until I decide to make it live again?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 12:20 am

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  Hello there,
  You can do that. See here for Privacy settings > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  Note: Whatever Google has indexed will not be removed from their search page results until they flush their caches which is every 3 – 6 months.