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1. bubster119
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi, I'm looking to create a blog, it's not to publicize myself (infact i'd prefer to keep it private) I simply want to use the RSS feed that Word Press creates to generate my flash sites news page.

   My questions are:

   1. how do I prevent anybody other than me posting updates?

   2. how do I prevent my blog being indexed on by search engines?

   Also, if I'm the only person posting and comments have been disabled do I still need to work about spam?

   Hope somebody can help.

   Any comments much appreciated. :)

2. kctipton
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I think everything you want to do can be done with little trouble.

   WordPress configuration options ought to let you lock down the blog very tightly. You'll need to set up your own robots.txt file to ban all "well-behaved" search engines from indexing the blog. That won't guarantee complete privacy, though. Badly-behaved bots are free to ignore robots.txt, and they do. Google for "robots.txt generator" to get some ideas how they work and what

   Additionally, I suggest you not publicize links to that blog _anywhere_. Web spiders (badly behaved ones) could find the link and try to visit the site. There are plugins that help block access by such bots if they do visit.

3. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   You could also password-protect your wordpress directory. Any difficulty in entering a site usually thwarts bots. If it's password-protected and they can't just get in, then they'll move on.

   My host has a way to password-protect directories through the control panel - you might check to see if yours will do the same. If not, I believe you can do it through your .htaccess file.

   But if you *do* do this, then anyone who wants to view your blog will have to have the password to do so. SO if it's something like a family-only site, or some kinds of "certain friends blogging" kind of thing, that shouldn't pose a problem for you - but if you want the general public to be able to view it, then you couldn't use this option.

   Most likely, at some point, it *will* get indexed whether you want it to or not. All it takes is one link from one person. A general rule of thumb: if you don't want it to be found, don't put it on the internet.

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