Will posts changed to private fall out of search engine results?

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  toastiest · Member · May 22, 2014 at 7:17 am

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  If I change a post from public to private, will it eventually fall out of a Google’s search results? That is my desired outcome. If not, would a reindexing request to Google achieve this goal, or would the page (and its cached version) remain out there, since the URL technically would remain the same? I realize there is no way to completely scrub the internet of a post that’s already been public.

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 22, 2014 at 8:35 am

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  It will, eventually, but you can also use webmaster tools to remove the page from Google search results. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

  Note that you’ll first need to verify your site ownership with Google’s webmaster tools if you haven’t already: http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/