Stop your Facebook profile from showing up in search engines

Want to have a facebook profile but don’t want it to show up in search engines such as google, yahoo and msn? Increase your privacy and more importantly your security by disallowing your profile to show up in public searches. All you have to do is edit some facebook settings. This is very important to do. In fact, it’s very important to make sure you limit as much of your private facebook as possible. Hackers are everywhere.

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Why does facebook allow their users profiles to be shown on google
Facebook has never seriously considered security of the users. They make it seem like they do but in reality they don’t. They simply want to make as much money as possible. Who can blame them? The fact of the matter is that facebook get a lot of page rank and visitors from their users profiles. People post, comment and edit their profile about everything from automotive parts to informative information. That is A LOT of keywords. Facebook WANTS those keywords all over google, yahoo etc to be linking to them. Therefore they make it your default setting. Is it good for you? No. Is it good for the facebook organization? Absolutely. So…

How do I keep my facebook profile from showing up in search engines?

- First log into facebook and go to Settings -> Privacy Settings (in the top right part of the facebook home page).

- Click the link that named Search.

- Uncheck the box next to about creating a public listing and letting google and other search engines index it

- Save the changes

Now your private profile or public profile will no longer show up in search engine results. You can breathe easy, your security is that much greater.