changed blog URL, no search result
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I changed my blog URL from garvishsingh.wordpress.com to beyondtop.wordpress.com
Inspite of putting all the tags my new blog name can’t be searched from google whereas garvishsingh was easily found in the 1st page of search results.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
Google will eventually index the site, but it might take a few days. When was the URL change made?
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Yes it’s public, I’ve already checked.
Is it possible that it’s happing because I still have garvishsingh.wordpress as a site? I just have hidden it. -
Is it possible that it’s happing because I still have garvishsingh.wordpress as a site? I just have hidden it.
Yes, I think so. If https://garvishsingh.wordpress.com/, which is still publicly visible but without any published content, previously had the same or similar published content as https://beyondtop.wordpress.com/, then this might result in a delay of Google indexing the front page, posts, etc. of the new site.
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I wonder if a Site Redirect upgrade would help expedite the process of Google indexing of the new site in this case. You may add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention. Staff would know more about the effects of site redirect.
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Thank you for helping, means a lot.
If I have 2 sites under the same username, do you know how do I delete one of them? -
@garvishkhurana, doc is right. A site redirect is definitely the way to go if the old site was well indexed. Any links to the old site will be redirected to the new one, and Google will update their settings as well.
You can delete the site, but you would not be able to redirect it if you did that, and you would lose your existing google rank. You would just have to wait to build your rank up again.
If you want to delete it anyway, you can do that here:
https://wordpress.com/settings -
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