How to Make your Blog Private or Unavailable for the Moment

 

There are several reasons you may want to have a private blog. You may want to keep your blog private when you are first configuring things to avoid having people see your blog “under construction”. You may also want to create a blog that is not intended for a large audience, but rather just for family and friends.
Either way, I am going to show you a simple way  how to restrict your site approval to certain readers on Blogger?.

How to Make your Blog or Website Private

Login to your Blogger dashboard and In the upper left, select a blog then From the left-hand menu, click Settings (follow screen shots as below).

In the setting results find the name “Permissions” and click “Reader access”. Click “Activate Plugin” on the next page.

Under “Reader access ” click on Private to authors and select from the following options: 

As i choose here

Private to authors

What does it means Public, Private & Custom? 

Public: Anyone on the web can access and read your blog.
Private: All authors of your blog can find and read it.
Custom readers: Those readers who invited by mail to access and read your blog. 

Now it's up to you what kind of permission you want to set up on your website. If you choose to keep your site private at that time, it will show the following message to the public. However, site providers will continue to read your site.

This blog is open to invited readers only

http://anyblogname.blogspot.com/

It doesn't look like you've been invited to read this blog. If you think this is a mistake, you may want to contact the blogger and request an invitation.

Sign in as yourmail@gmail.com - Sign in with a different account.

Now anyone who tries to access your blog will be prompted to enter the email or sign in with attached email in order to view your blog because at that time your your blog only active for invited readers or only for you.

Please note:
Blogger lets you create 100 different sites for each account. Because of this, people often create too many demo sites to check out their stuff like widgets or gadgets before they go public. Those sites are not for public users as they are similar to workstations where certain content is created only. This is why, many developers want to limit their blog to public users but not to their site providers, writers and administrators as well discuss above.