What do I do when my Private Blogis NOT Private?
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I’m concerned. I made my blog private and all of a sudden I now have 21 views! It is also showing-up on google search. What am I doing wrong? https://maggieslassie.wordpress.com I decided to make it private after a prison-blogger followed my blog.
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@elizabethre, a private blog should definitely stay private.
I checked your blog just now and I saw that it has been deleted, so I can’t check on the details or see if the setting was correct. Even if I could check up on the setting though, the stats are shown by day and so I wouldn’t be able to tell if the views came in before or after you changed the setting—but from your description, it does sound to me like the views probably were recorded before the setting was changed. Our stats aren’t updated immediately in real time, so if you saw some views com in a bit later, they were probably from before the time you changed the privacy setting.
I’m really sorry you had a bad experience with a follower. If you’d like to try setting up again, let me know and I will help you get set up again and help you make sure the privacy settings are correct.
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Hi and thanks, yes the view stats just kept rising so I deleted the blog. And the views did start climbing after I’d made the blog private. I tried a couple of times to ensure it was private, but after resetting I could still find it on a Google-search. But that could have been because WP recognized my IP address?
I managed to copy my chapters and keep a record of them. I will create another blog, but I wish WP would give bloggers some control over followers. Thanks again.
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I made my blog private and all of a sudden I now have 21 views!
When you make your blog private, the the visits and views you make to the site (while you are logged in to your WordPress.com account) will appear in your stats. If your site is public, then your own visits would not be added to your stats. But as soon as you made your site “private” your visits count—were you going to your site to check the stats after you made it private? Had you invited friends to visit your now private site? Were you adding or updating posts and pages? Especially the last question? I think each time you edit-and-preview a post or page on a private site would count as a view on your stats.
It is also showing-up on google search.
If your site had been indexed by Google and other search engines, then it will continue to appear in cached pages they provide. That will continue until Goog et al re-index your site and then remove the cached pages/posts and links.
If you have a public site, then it will have followers. Loved ones, some you don’t want, spammers, and so on. If it’s public, then anyone in the public can access it. “Follow” link or not, if your site is public, then anyone can add it to their reading list—you may not even be notified about that. It’s not only WordPress: FaceBook, Twitter, and other social media can be public access to any public blog. And it will take some weeks or months to be removed from search engines cached pages.
I can still find some pages I posted and then deleted years ago. Granted, it’s not easy, but if you post something publicly, then you need to realize that it leaves a trail in time.
It is also showing-up on google search.
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Thanks Tess. I believed maybe the ‘followers’ to the blog were still able to access it after I made it private? And I didn’t visit my blog over thirty times in the space of a few hours. Plus none of those views were from the UK (family). They were all from the U.S. I understand some of them may have been my own but not that many.
Thanks again for the support I really appreciate it and hope I’m wiser for it. :-)
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