Don't want posts showing

haha, so you basically are trying to create dummy pages in the hope of Google indexing your site and giving you a better ranking? You know Google are a cleverer that that? And once spotted, they will obliterate your rankings.

Content is King, if you concentrate on adding informative engaging content on your site you should not have to resort to what you’re suggesting.

How and ever, you could create a category, and manually exclude posts from this category from showing on your homepage.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category

You will need to have these posts published somewhere on your website as Google will need to index these pages. This is frowned upon.

Hello Harmck,

No not all. I am trying to target keywords that rank easily and I am legitimately making posts with relevant content. But I don’t want my visitors that are coming to my site to view controversial content and see” how to find a great vet in buffalo” and then in “rochester” and so on. It would take away from all that is sacred in a blog. I look for traffic from people that really want to post opinions on my site. Therefore they come back and back and back, my advertisers hopefully will be happy.

These pages will not be indexed unless I make them public?

Is this the only way it can be done. Truthfully I am very new at WP other that installing the basics from WP for Dummies I have no clue. Would you be able to point me in the correct direction? Example

>>>>> go to
>>>>>>then
>>>>>>this

I understand if not. But Thank you for helping with the issues so far. I have had great results here. I greatly appreciate it.

Any advice you can offer would be great.

Thank you
Best Regards

Mike

Mike,

Does your blog have anything to do with finding a great vet in buffalo?

Or are you merely trying to snare people who’ve searched for a great vet in buffalo to your blog in the hope of driving traffic to your site.

Regards,
Harry

No Harry it does not. I didn’t put my site on here because of the fear someone would think that. Its a site that informs people about certain people who have no consideration for kids. I would ad it here it you would like, its still under construction though.

Thanks Mike

If anything, as you merely want keywords on pages but not the pages displaying you should be using Meta Data, which is information regarding a page that is generally hidden and used by search engines.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Meta_Tags_in_WordPress – misusing this by including keywords and descriptions which are irrelevant to the actual will be caught out easily by search engines, thus why I’m discouraging it being used for this purpose.

I believe the site you’re dealing with deals with a very specific issue, I see you have posted the link in another thread previously. The reason for my questions is solely to ascertain the best way to help you, and also to dispel any myths that if you include a whole bunch of keywords related to the likes of lawnmowers etc. when in fact you sell spoons and that if people are searching for lawnmowers, your site will show up in the likes of Google.

Hello Harmck,

I am new to WP not to the intelligence of savvy search engines. I did make a mistake about my posting. I was under the impression that it was the posts could be hidden, it was the pages with a plugin called “exclude pages”.

I thing WP is very exciting however sometimes you can’t take out the HTML old fashion programming. Even the Dummies book didn’t help much. Too many people creating things that are useful for them. Nothing seems universal. When you put in a code for HTML to do something, it did it.If you didn’t want it to do something,you wrote the code a different way. With WP it’s what it is and if you want it to do something else you have have to override it by designing a plugin to do so.

Thanks Mike

Can you explain why you would want to hide posts on your site?

Hi Mike,

WordPress very much works like HTML albeit in a more dynamic way. You shouldn’t have to write a plugin. You can edit the theme and you can pretty much tailor one to suit almost any needs, I’ve been building custom themes and have pretty much hacked themes to serve many functions. Search for free themes, and see how they work. Search for info on the Loop in WordPress.

Posts can be hidden from the Public, via Private Posts, Password Protected posts, a hidden category. You could even output the category name as a class… and then in CSS put display:none on a particular. There are literally endless ways this can be done, but it’s just not a feature of WordPress.

If you use a plugin to exclude categories, they will not show at ALL on your website, if they are not linked to anything how a is web crawler supposed to build a map of your site, thus I cannot see why you want seemingly invisible content on your website. If it shouldn’t be seen, it shouldn’t be there, simple as.

I have presented a number of solutions, and WordPress offers a number by default. I have no problem offering advice, which is why I spend any free minute I have trying to help people here, as I myself and benefitted from the experience of others.

Enough dancing about the issue, what information are you seeking to include on these so called hidden pages that you want hidden from view. Your website is only slightly controversial if it is the one regarding Sex Offenders… please explain minus any analogies of the what purpose hiding this content will achieve? As while the previous explanations have been seemingly harmless, there are other possibly legal ramifications, be it libel etc. to the proposed content you wish to hide from view.

Harmck, I told you already no dancing here. I will just keep it as. But surely my questions are on the interest of look of my site. Adding a blog to my site that has been up and running for the last 10-11 years was a decision made only to enhance the experience of the individuals and also drive traffic though targeting local keywords. That will bring more visitors, comments and rankings for the site.

I thought it would take away from the appearance seeing all the posts being redundant with

**** Ft. Lauderdale Florida
**** Miami Florida
**** Orlando Florida

But after doing research this would be a good thing. Rich content and targeting local keywords that are being searched in Google.

Again, If I wanted free traffic or if this was a ploy of some sort I would have blurted my site out right away. I did not but will if you so desire.

Thanks
Mike