Why do you want to do so/ hide? Redoing your site? Why not use a test site or your own local server (on your computer)?
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Arro
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Please understand that, without going into details, the market focus is taking a geographical shift on this startup and all the pages other than the landing page are rendered temporarily out of service and we do not want them surfacing in search queries until we can go back and modify them when we shift back to the original geographical strategy. Will updating the pages to draft status remove them from search queries? How long are they held in search caches? Please excuse me for calling attention to your suggestions but being highly mobile and understaffed preclude going into the server and hosting business, which we would never do in any case. We have a vendor for that. All we want to do is hide some previously published pages until a later date. Any ideas? Thanks much!
No, it will not change anything on pages that have already been published – they are already indexed and cached by search engines – there is no way to change that on your end.
You’d need to look at asking Google (and others) to remove any non-live pages – but that’s not a WordPress issue.
Correction to the above – it could change after Google has re-indexed your site.
More info here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734
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Arro
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Excellent information and many thanks for that! It is so nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
