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Make blog Private and Unsearchable

Many people write blogs to share their thoughts with everybody and anybody.
However, you may also use your Blog as an online diary, penning very personal
and private thoughts. Like all diaries, you can either allow a select few persons to
view the Blog or allow no one but yourself the right to view it. Also, you may not
want it to be indexed by search engines, so that people searching for it on the net
will not find it in the search results.
his article lets you know how to create private Blogs. !f your intentions are the
exact opposite, and you want to publici"e your Blog to the whole world, follow our
other guides to submit your Blog to Blog #irectories, $oogle, %ahoo and &eed
#irectories.
&irst the caveat. hese guidelines will only show you how to make your Blogger
blog as private as you can get. As we shall explain, there is no guarantee that
search engine spiders will never find your Blog because any site that is available
on the net will be crawled by search engines. 'hat we can do is to minimi"e that
possibility.
(ote that these steps are to be taken BEFORE you create the blog. !f you already
have an existing Blog, it has in all likelihood been indexed. hese tips will at best
prevent future contents from being seen.
Title and Blog URL
#o not want people to associate that Blog to you) 'hen you create a new Blog,
select a Blog *+L and itle carefully, choose words that have no bearing or
relation to you or what you do. After the Blog is created, #- (- post. .ost only
after you have completed the following steps.
Permission
'e start with the most crucial and essential step. Blogger has made it easy for
you to create private Blogs. 'hen you are logged in, go to /ettings 01
.ermissions. %ou can restrict your Blog +eaders to only people you choose or
only the blog authors.
.eople who enter the Blog *+L into their browsers can still see the Blog itle but
will be prompted to enter their $oogle account particulars and password. !f they
are not given the rights to view the Blog, a message will be shown2 3It doesn't
look like you have been invited to read this blog. If you think this is a mistake,
you might want to contact the blog author and request an invitation.3
'hile the contents cannot be seen, people do know that this Blog *+L with that
Blog itle exist and it is a private blog. As we had mentioned, if you don4t want
anybody to know this Blog is yours, it is important to have a Blog *+L and itle
that are not obviously connected to you.
Listing on Blogger.com
hese are the further steps to take, 5ust to be sure. *nder /ettings 01 Basic, you
can see a 3Add your Blog to our listings)3 option. 6hoose 3(o3. 6lick 3/ave
/ettings3 at the bottom. his will do three things 7
i8 %our Blog will not appear when people search Blogger.com.
ii8 his Blog will not be shown in the Blog List on your .rofle page.
iii8 he Blogger homepage showcases a list of recently updated blogs but this Blog
will not be shown.
Ping Setting
$o to /ettings 01 .ublishing and under the 3/end .ing3 option, choose 3(o3. /ave
the /etting. 'henever a Blog is updated, $oogle will notify some of the tracking
services of the updates. !f your Blog is private, there is no reason why these
services ought to know of your Blog updates.
Site Feed
%our Blog contents can be read through your /ite4s Atom and +// &eeds. .eople
can catch up on news and articles by subscribing to these &eeds and viewing the
material using their &eed readers. !f you do not want your contents to be read or
syndicated, go to /ettings 01 /ite &eed and to the 9uestion 3Allow Blog &eed)3
select 3(one3 and click 3/ave /ettings3.
Meta Tag
(ow that we have altered the settings for the Blog, we can add a further meta tag
into our template to tell search engines not to index the site. 6lick emplate
01:dit HML and you can see the source code. /omewhere at the top, 5ust below
;head1, insert this line <shown in red820
<head
<meta name!"robots"
content!"noinde#$no%ollo&" '
Leave this tag there. /earch engine robots which visit your site will not index the
Blog pages and contents.
Pro%ile
'e thought we should cover this for completeness. !n the top right corner of your
#ashboard, you can go to the 3:dit .rofile3 page. *nder 3/how my blogs3, if you
see a blog that you do not want people to know about, remove it from the listing.
.eople who view your .rofile will not know about the Blog. %ou can also choose
not to share information about your .rofile by not ticking the box next to 3/hare
my profile3.
E#ternal Links
he steps outlined above are within your control but this one is not. !t is also the
reason why we said we can only minimi"e but not eliminate the possibility that
people know of your Blog. Anybody can link to your Blog *+L since it is a valid
*+L. !f your friends happen to know about your Blog and write a post
mentioning your Blog or linking to your Blog, there will be an external link to
your Blog. 'hatever they write about it will be public knowledge. Hence, to have
an online diary that only you know about, remember that a secret shared by two
persons is no longer a secret.

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