A question for everyone...

[varakesh516]

Okay...
Maybe I'm naive or jsut being ADD and didn't read the LiveJournal rules closely enough

I had a weird experience this morning.  I was doing a Google search for  looking for something AND my journal entry showed UP!! for all to see....in Google!

What gives?

Is this because we tag things that they are made public domain?

HELP!!

Comments

THAT SUCKS!!!

[varakesh516]

I'm removing all my tags. Diaries are supposed to be *private*.

Re: THAT SUCKS!!!

[varakesh516]

grr. thanks for letting me know, though.

Re: THAT SUCKS!!!

[spoothbrush]

You're SUPPOSED (in theory) to be able to change a setting so that the Google spiders won't look at your journal. Doesn't do anything for references to your LJ name in other people's journals, but does keep your posts from being searchable.

I don't know if this completely works, but putting relatively unique segments of my public posts into google doesn't bring my journal up. It won't do anything for what's already out there, but it may help for the future.

Re: THAT SUCKS!!!

[varakesh516]

Thanks for the good advice. I'll implement for sure!