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Does google index blogs set to private in wordpress ?

by Chromemike
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Does google index blogs set to private in wordpress ? Thanks Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    The WordPress support page for this topic says that setting your domain's site visibility to discourage search engines does just that.

    Google and the other major search engines respect the setting so you shouldn't get indexed by them.

    Remember to change it back to visible once you want your site to get crawled again.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chromemike


      This is what I meant , not the entire site , just a page or a post, I want them to be indexed but I want them to be private . Thanks Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Sorry - misunderstood the original question.

    Just checked on a couple of my blogs:

    One with Yoast's SEO plugin installed set the private page to noindex,follow
    One without that installed didn't set the meta tag

    So the answer is the usual computer "it depends".

    If you've got Yoast or anything similar installed, you can over-ride what seems to be the default "noindex" for individual pages in the Advanced tab. You'd need to check what happened in the site map.

    Of course, you'll need to create some way for Google to know the pages exist - site maps, links, that kind of thing.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      It indexes and then, if it shows it, it says something about robots not letting it display description. But if you click on the url, you can visit the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ranksword
    Private post do not get indexed as they are meant for internal use.
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  • Profile picture of the author fpforum
    As others have mentioned, these will normally get indexed still, unless you have something in the htaccess or robots file that tells it not to be indexed. Your title will still show up in the search results, but there probably won't be a description, and obviously users will still be told it's private if they click.
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