Imagine a situation where someone searches for your name through Google Search and the results show your Facebook profile.
This may not be desirable for some social media users. If you are looking for a way to stop your profile being indexed by search engines such as Google, Bing, etc., read our article today.
How to remove your Facebook profile from Google, Bing, etc.
Please note that we will be doing this from the new Facebook design. So if you use the old appearance, you may want to disable it to make the following steps easier.
Step 1: Visit Facebook
The first step in deleting your social media profile is to open a web browser and visit facebook.com.
Once you visit the site, go ahead and sign in with your credentials
Step 2: Settings and privacy
Look up right on Facebook and you will see an arrow pointing down. Do click on him. From the drop-down menu, select Settings and Privacy.
Step 3: Click on Settings
The drop-down menu will display a new section with many options to choose from. Select Settings. When you do this, a new page will be loaded into your web browser.
Step 4: Search for it button Privacy
Now, from the recently uploaded page, look in the left pane. From there, click the button that says, Privacy.
Step 6: Change the way others find you
Scroll down until on the right side of the page you come across a section called: “How others can find and contact you”. From here, you will see her choice: “Do you want non-Facebook search engines to link to your profile?” Just click the Edit button next to it.
Step 6: Ansactivation search engine index
The last step here is to catslowcheck the box: Allow non-Facebook search engines to link to your profile. A small popup will appear, so just click on the blue button labeled, Disable. Save your preferences by pressing the Close button.... and this is.
Step 7: It will take some time to take effect
The changes you made will take a few weeks to take effect. Facebook must first process the request. then after that, the major search engines should do the same. Additionally, if your name appears on public posts on Facebook, then someone who knows how search works can still use search engines to find you.