How to Make Your SmugMug Site Completely Private?

Do you want to keep your photos safely from everyone on SmugMug? Yes, you can make your SmugMug site completely private with the help of the SmugMug’s privacy settings. No one will be able to see your photos, captions, and keywords except the people you wish to show to. These people can check your site as it were not private, but they won’t be able to search it on any search engines. So, ensure to make them remember your SmugMug address. Read on to know more.

How to Make Your SmugMug Site Completely Private?

Google and other search engines can easily discover your site and pages whenever people search for it, you can disable this to make your SmugMug site completely private. Let’s look at the privacy settings.

• First of all, log in to your SmugMug account.
• Go to ‘Account Settings’ and navigate the ‘Discovery’ tab.
• Under ‘Search’, you’ll find ‘Site Visibility’ settings.
• Toggle the options ‘No’ on ‘Google Search Visibility’ and ‘SmugMug Search Visibility’.
• This setting automatically applies to all your galleries.

If you want to keep just a certain gallery to be private and the rest of your site to be searchable, conduct the following process:

• Select the gallery you want to hide, go to ‘Gallery Settings’.
• Under ‘Security & Sharing’ tab, you’ll see ‘Web Searchable’ and ‘SmugMug Searchable’.
• Turn these two options to ‘No’.

If you have large files, it might take few hours to make your settings effective. Furthermore, you can change the site visibility settings whenever you want, but it will take about two weeks for Google and other search engines to re-index your site.