Going private, but not so private

There was a time I considered going private.

That thought didn't last long.

Then I thought, maybe I'll pretend to go private. And when everyone professes their undying love for me, begging me to stay, sending me their email addresses asking for an invite, I will announce that I had privacy remorse and will, indeed, stay public for friends and blog stalkers alike.

But that never happened. Not yet.

I could still possibly go 'pretend private' in the near future.

I'll keep you posted.

So I went back and forth-

to go private, or to not go private. That is the question.

We all have stories of our neighbor's, sister's, daughter's, best friend's, cousin's, fiance who knew someone who actually had a real life blog stalker... of the crazy sort. And those stories are scary and not very comforting. But I figured that since I'm going to be famous one day (most likely discovered from an extra witty, or perhaps super crafty blog post) it would defeat the purpose of going private. Because just like Cheers, everyone will know my name.

So I'm here. Public. Waiting to be discovered. Which I'm pretty sure is going to happen.

Sometime in the near future. Or never. But I'm staying optimistic.

And since I've decided to stay public I found a little bit of a compromise.

I don't mind the idea of people coming and going from link to link on my blog, but I do get a little weirded out by the idea that people are finding my blog via google. There was a time I allowed search engines to find me just by typing in a key word e.g. bath time kid pictures, cute girls, naked babies, *peeing with the door open.

Creeps me out just thinking about it.

So here's what I did to fix that little issue...

Go to my Dashboard> Settings Tab> Basic Tab> and half way down find Let search engines find your blog and check NO.

Problem solved. Now I'm private, but not so private.

FYI- (copy and pasted from blogger) "If you select "No", everyone can still view your blog but search engines will be instructed not to crawl it. If there are links to your blog from other websites, search engines may still suggest your blog in response to queries."

*Now let me clarify, if you pee with the door open- you are considered, in my book, normal. If you have to google and read about people peeing with the door open? Umm, I just don't understand it. Unless, of course, you are Nate and you're googling it in search of a support group. Then it makes perfect sense.

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