I have the box checked in the admin panel, but is there a way to make my page so that the only way to get to it is by typing the URL? It is in a blog.website.com folder. I only want people I give the URL to to be able to get on there. The site is nothing dirty, it is a journal that I am doing to follow my college journey. It is a way to share with the family how things are going, but I don't want everyone and thier mother on there. Thanks.
You have several options. One is to make the site totally private by setting up a password for the entire website. There are plugins for that. An example is this one:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-wp/
A search for "private can give you many options to choose from:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=private&sort=
But it you want it to be accessible without a password but not indexed by the search engines you need to add a simple text file named "robots.txt" to your root directory. The only thing you need to write in that file is:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
That is all. If you want an easy solution to writing and downloading this file maybe you want to install this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pc-robotstxt/