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TIP: Check your WordPress Privacy Setting

by Scott Ames
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I don't really know how it got set, perhaps I did it while clicking around, but I don't recall doing it. One of my sites had the privacy setting set to block search engines. Big oops. I was wondering why updates didn't seem to get indexed anymore.

It's worth a moment to check yours.

Settings | Privacy


() I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers

() I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors
#check #privacy #setting #tip #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    There was a phase when Fantastico installs set it to block visitors by default, but they updated it back the other way.

    Maybe that site you had was setup during that period.
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
      Originally Posted by VegasGreg View Post

      There was a phase when Fantastico installs set it to block visitors by default, but they updated it back the other way.

      Maybe that site you had was setup during that period.
      Ah.. that very well could be.
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    • Profile picture of the author TommyBussey
      Originally Posted by VegasGreg View Post

      There was a phase when Fantastico installs set it to block visitors by default, but they updated it back the other way.

      Maybe that site you had was setup during that period.
      Great observation!

      Scott I'm glad you figured this out and great "heads-up" on posting that here at the WF. I ran into that fun little situation a little while back...I was about ready to slap Google

      I also wanted to add that if anyone uses Jeff Johnson's "Traffic-Getting" plug-in, after you run the optimizations using that plugin it will have automatically changed that privacy setting that Scott mentioned. (By the way, if you want to check out that plug-in, its free here: Jeff Johnson Underground Training Lab and just opt-in on the footer form that pops up).

      Thanks again Scott!



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  • Profile picture of the author Ilya Feynberg
    I did that once a long time ago, then sat back and wondered why the hell I couldn't rank for anything. :/ Epic fail!
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
      Originally Posted by Ilya Feynberg View Post

      I did that once a long time ago, then sat back and wondered why the hell I couldn't rank for anything. :/ Epic fail!
      It's kinda funny. I was scratching my head for a while because I always could get stuff indexed quickly. It was starting to feel like I was a guy standing on the street screaming and yelling, but no one was paying attention at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author billnad
    Thanks. Now I have all my sites to check. This is a great thing to check that I looked at a while back as well. I wonder if there was some kind of plugin that flipped the switch
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