There are a number of reasons why you might want to keep your Blogger blog a secret. Or perhaps you just want keep it from the view of visitors. For whatever reason you might have, here’s how you can keep your blog a secret until you’re ready to unleash it upon the world.
From the dashboard of your blogger account, you will see a list of all the blogs you are authoring, or co-authoring with someone else.
If you wanted to hide one or more of the blogs under your authorship, you would start by clicking the “Edit Profile” link next to your avatar.
You’ll find yourself on the Edit User Profile page. From here, you’ll see a “Show my blogs” section with a link. It should look like this:
From here, clicking the “Select blogs to display” link will take you to the “Set Displayed Blogs” page, where you can check and uncheck the various blogs you have an authorship interest in.
Simply uncheck the blogs you don’t want people to know you are participating in and click the Save Settings button.
I’ve hidden all my blogger blogs from displaying. So what does this mean? It means they are still accessible by visitors, but they will no longer display on my profile page. In fact, here is what people will see when they visit my profile.
My Blogger profile doesn’t display any of the blogs that I author or have a co-author interest in.
There are many possible reasons for doing this, but my primary reason for doing this is to keep the blogs that are sandboxes, test sites and hacks from the public eye. There’s no reason, in my own humble opinion, to bother people interested in seeing my Blogger profile with blogs that are nothing more than a sandbox for me to test and try new things with.
Gotcha! If you add a new blog, or become a co-author with another Blogger blog, it will display on your profile by default. If you want to hide it, you’ll have to take these same steps to hide the newly added blog.
Don’t forget, if you are concerned about your blogs visibility, check out your Basic Settings also. There are other aspects of public visibility to your blog as well, and they are discussed in the lesson I just linked to.
Conclusion
I participate in other peoples blogs from time to time to help people out of a jam with their templates, or anything else for that matter. When they add me to their blog to allow me access, their blog will display on my profile. That’s nice and all, but really, I don’t need that to happen.
I decided that I’ll keep my Blogger clientele private, unless they decide to announce my presence or the assistance I’m giving them. Some people are sensitive to this, and I can respect that. I therefore remove all blogs from display on my profile.
I hope the Blogger users out there find this tidbit helpful. If you did, why not let me know by leaving a comment below?
Happy Blogging!
Wayne
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Thanks for the tips. I make some controversial blogs and don’t really want my identity tied to a lot of the stuff I author.
Another good reason why you might want to do this. Thanks Heff!
Interesting that you cannot ‘bow out’ of the relationship and would have to resort to hiding it.
I already discovered this. I was a co-author on a dude’s blog years ago. He’s sinse dis-owned the blog, but didn’t delete it, and being a co-author, I can’t delete it. I did manage to “hide” the link to it though.
I imagine and i ask my self how you can even to eat… I suppose you have a job! You have 3, 4 or how many sites you have! You have a family and you need to spend some time with her! You read other’s blogs!!… God! Brother! Indeed… You are so busy!… Take care of you and take it easy… Ok, brother. Bell
Some of us treat blogs like toys, and not all blogs are worthy of exposing to the world. A blog titled ‘test blog’ is quite obviously not a ‘production’ blog, and as such, one might want to hide it from view.
Vanea, the best advice I think I can give you is to find people with like interests. I’m sure you have other blogs that you like to frequent. Just be yourself, and you’ll find people that are interested in what you write.
I’m so scattered right now that I can’t even find time to get to the blogs I enjoy reading (and I feel kinda bad about it).
Hi Wayne! Bell again…
I don’t understand my friend why, someone, could want to hide his blogs… I, for example, want to know everyone about me! I want millions of visitors! I want all the flags in my feedjit! Oh… I want… But no one comes! And is so hard for me to accept!… Please enter in my blog from time to time… You are my only friend right now Wayne! Please help me somehow… And don’t be upsead because of my comments… Bye, brother!
P.S.
You like cats, mister Wayne? I have three!… One black, another one like your’s and last one has all the colours! Hahaha! Bye, friend…
Don’t feel bad Curious, I did the same thing. Glad you found it helpful!
Insist? You haven’t even bought me a drink yet! But I know that clamant insistence anywhere. *grin* And if you insist, I should probably snap to, or get ta steppin. Ok, sounded funny in my head…
Here’s a placeholder blog I created, I liked the idea of a United States of Africa. Read a few spots on it a few month back and it grabbed me. So I checked to see if a decent variation of the keywords were available, and yes! They were, so I’m sitting on it trying to figure out how I want to do with it.
http://united-states-of-africa.blogspot.com
I’m not squating, I’m finding my direction with it.
I INSIST on knowing of ALL your blogs so that I can see what you’re up to. So there!!
Wow, I set up a test blog under a different email so I could keep it separate from the main one not let viewers know what kind of things I was experimenting on before I was ready to display it. I never even thought about the tip you just gave here. It will help in not having to sign in and out of blogger to get to the site I want. Thanks for sharing