When a wordpress blog is set to private, will search engines still index it?

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  123computer123 · Member · Mar 31, 2014 at 11:58 am

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  When a WordPress blog is set to ‘private’ will search engines still
  index it ?

  In the settings’ section, under the ‘reading’ pane in wordpress.com,
  one has the following three options:

  1. Allow search engines to index this site.
  2. Ask search engines not to index this site.
  3. I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose.

  Now my question:
  when choosing the 3rd option, will this also stop search engines
  from indexing and crawling the site, and subsequently the blog
  never showing up in search results?
  I don’t want the blog to show up in search results.

  Thanks for your help.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 31, 2014 at 1:26 pm

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  3) will keep search engines out, but if the site has already been indexed, the old content will still be on the web in the cache of search engines

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  123computer123 · Member · Apr 2, 2014 at 6:54 am

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  Thank you auxclass.

  But how come that when adding a page to a private blog,
  on the right hand side it always initially still shows ‘visibility = public’ , and one has to manually edit this to private for each page ??

  Is there a way to change this, that each added page is automatically set to ‘visibility = private’ ?

  Thank you for your help.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 2, 2014 at 7:26 am

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  If you set visibility to private, then only you will be able to read it: authorized readers of the blog will not be able to see it. The page or post has to be public, on a private blog, for the authorized people to be able to see it.