What is private about making a blog ‘private’ when it is viewable to anyone.

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  shellyontherun · Member · Sep 16, 2012 at 12:33 am

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  I’m very curious why my blog, marked as ‘private’ has ‘195’ hits. When I search for my blog ‘bloggingdaybyday.com’, I am required to enter my sign in name and password.

  When I search for my blog ‘bloggingdaybyday.wordpress.com’, I can get right to the blog posts and so can others.

  What is private about making a blog ‘private’?
  Blog url: http://bloggingdaybyday.wordpress.com/

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 16, 2012 at 12:43 am

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  Hi there,
  Your blog is private:

  http://bloggingdaybyday.com/ is marked private by its owner. You can:

  Request access to view the site. We’ll send your username to the site owner for their approval.
  Log out and sign in as different user. You’re logged in as ‘timethief’.
  Learn about privacy settings.

  Your own visits are being recorded in the stats. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

  Also try this please. Log out and clear your browser cache and cookies, reboot and without logging in visit your blog.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 16, 2012 at 12:44 am

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  oops! I put the blockquotes on the wrong part. :s

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 16, 2012 at 2:52 am

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  And I believe that if people put in your URL, even though they can’t see the blog, they are counted as one hit.