Why is my site/blog live?

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  vanessaluchak · Member · Nov 7, 2014 at 7:46 pm

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  i do not want my site/blog viewed until I have finished it, colors, themes, work on it etc.. I saw today I already had a page view. How can I put it on hold to start/finish it?

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

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  vanessaluchak · Member · Nov 7, 2014 at 7:47 pm

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  i do not want my site/blog viewed until I have finished it, colors, themes, work on it etc.. I saw today I already had a page view. How can I put it on hold to start/finish it?

  The blog I need help with is custodydoula.wordpress.com.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 7, 2014 at 7:48 pm

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  To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 7, 2014 at 7:50 pm

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  re: privacy settings or not

  I never do that I leave the visibility public and do not share the URL with anyone at all until I and ready to do so. That is because it takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.

  What attracts search engines is unique content in posts (not pages) that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

  Lastly note that we cannot assist with search engine issues. They are between the blogger and the search engine. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  We have no control over when Google crawls and updates the SERPs. Note that you can Ask Google to re-crawl your URLs after making the site public https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812?hl=en