{"id":6506,"date":"2026-02-15T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=6506"},"modified":"2026-02-15T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:51:15","slug":"why-is-my-private-site-listed-on-google","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/portfolio\/why-is-my-private-site-listed-on-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is my private site listed on Google"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google will crawl and index any&nbsp;<strong>public<\/strong>&nbsp;site on Glow Blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your site is indexed while it is public and you later make it private, it may take some time for it to be removed from Google\u2019s search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/u\/1\/search-console\/remove-outdated-content?\">Remove outdated content from Google Search \u2013 Search Console<\/a> to request that the information be updated or removed more quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will need a Google account to use this tool \u2014 a Glow Google  account cannot be used.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will crawl and index any&nbsp;public&nbsp;site on Glow Blogs. If your site is indexed while it is public and you later make it private, it may take some time for it to be removed from Google\u2019s search results. You can use Remove outdated content from Google Search \u2013 Search Console to request that the information &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/portfolio\/why-is-my-private-site-listed-on-google\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is my private site listed on Google<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[298056],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-6506","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","jetpack-portfolio-type-faq"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/6506\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}