DELETE BLOG

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    pacificdomes · Member ·

    I asked :
    Hi –
    does anyone know how to delete a blog completely? I am making a blog for a friend. Her old blog was bioenergydomes.wordpress.com and I changed the name to bioenergydome.wordpress.com . Now the old inactive blog keeps showing up on google before the new one. I selected it “hidden” in my blogs but I guess google still thinks it is there.

    SOMEONE WROTE and I don’t understand where to do this: “Set the site back to Private and go back to Google and start putting in the old Posts and pages into a delete pages section (see Site Config. >> Crawler Access >> Remove URL) – with the site Private you should get a 404 page not found error on the Posts which means you can ask Google to remove them from their search results.”

    HOW AND WHERE DO I DO THIS:

    auxclass
    Member
    Apr 11, 2011, 6:24 PM

    DON’T DELETE THE SITE! You will be really in trouble

    It will take 6 months or more for the old site to disappear from Google – set the old site to private and see the section on verifying your site with Google etc and verify the sites (you will need to set it back to let everyone in long enough for the verification process to work.

    Set the site back to Private and go back to Google and start putting in the old Posts and pages into a delete pages section (see Site Config. >> Crawler Access >> Remove URL) – with the site Private you should get a 404 page not found error on the Posts which means you can ask Google to remove them from their search results.

    Google never seems to forget so there will be some confusion for a while.

    There are some other ways probably to do the same – other should pitch in – you could also set it to “Block Search Engines” and put the new URL of the Posts in question in the old Posts on the old site and then people can click on the link to the new blog.

    I hope this is not completely confusing.

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  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    Please see here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-my-blog-6?replies=8#post-589118

  • Unknown's avatar
    quantumlord · Member ·

    yo Timethief

    You can also remove all the posts from the old site that gives a 404 as well

    If nothing works use a sub_referrer like http://tinyurl.com/

    with this you reroute your old site directly towards the new one.
    Bring then also the new site into tinyurl

    Q L. ;-)

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