can I keep the name of a site deletion?

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  ceeque · Member · May 31, 2014 at 6:36 pm

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  deleted site content but wish to retain site title and renew it completely

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  empgarrett · Member · May 31, 2014 at 7:48 pm

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  I have a related question: if that site is completely gone can you just give a new site the same name when you create it?

  -Perse

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2014 at 7:57 pm

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  @ceeque
  Note that the site title (blog name) and blog address URL do not have to be the same. The Site title (blog name) and/or the optional Tagline can be changed on the top of this page at any time. > Settings > General … “save changes”
  That is exactly where search engine spiders look for the site title and removing it from there can cause issues with getting your content indexed.

  option 1
  You can quickly remove your contents by deleting them in bulk.
  bulk delete images & media http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/deleting-files/#bulk-deletion
  bulk delete posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit
  bulk delete pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/#bulk-edit
  Here’s how to permanently delete Trash >
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#deleting-permanently

  option 2
  If you have tonnes of content Staff can empty the whole blog for you. That will remove all data including posts, pages, tags, categories, comments, and uploaded files and once deleted, the data cannot be recovered.

  If you are sure you want Staff to proceed, then type modlook into the tags in the sidebar for Staff attention and post again to this thread to:

  (1) confirm the URL of the blog you want them to empty;
  (2) confirm that you know content deletion is irreversible.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blog content does not remove it from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.

  To remove content from Google’s cache gotohttps://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/1724262?hl=en&ref_topic=3309469

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2014 at 7:57 pm

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  https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/1724262?hl=en&ref_topic=3309469

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  ceeque · Member · May 31, 2014 at 11:24 pm

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  many thanks for this complete reply, you have helped enormously!
  Thank You! :-)

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2014 at 11:38 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog. :)