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What is the best way to handle some hidden sites in wordpress? – SEO

Web newbie. I’m setting up a family website for sharing photos, etc. I plan to purchase my own domain name and will rent space on some hosting platform. I’m thinking ahead and will eventually want to create two more websites (another family website for my father’s side of the family and a personal one for me). The frugal side of me would like to limit the number of domains and hosts I have to purchase/rent.

I want the family websites to be hidden as much as possible (no SEO and requiring a login just to get to the main page), but I want my personal website to be public.

So far, what I’ve read says the above is difficult or cumbersome to do with wordpress multisite. If this is true, then is it safe to assume separate wordpress installs are more appropriate? Or, should I consider a new/different domain for my personal website?

Thanks,

Jim

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    I would:

    • Buy one domain example.com
    • Buy one hosting (shared or VPS if you have the skills)
    • Create multiple independent WordPress, and use subdomain site1.example.com, site2.example.com
    • protect some websites with Htaccess (some free plugin may also do the trick, but with htaccess you are sure Crawler (like Google) won’t access it.
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    There is a plugin called My private site which allows you to achieve what you are looking for:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/

    A full detailed step by step (blogpost) tutorial on how to make your site private is published here:
    https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-your-wordpress-blog-completely-private/

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