Delete website

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  jonathanczegledi · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 4:42 pm

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  I recently created a new wordpress site hosted by Hostgator for my business. When you google my name, my old wordpress site hosted by wordpress comes up first.

  If I delete my old wordpress site
  1 – Will it effect my new website?
  2 – will it no longer show up in search engines?

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 8:20 pm

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  To delete a WordPress.COM hosted blog you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to navigate to Dashboard > Tools > Delete Site. The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  https://wordpress.com/settings/delete-site/NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com

  *Replace “NAME_OF_BLOG” with the actual name of the blog in the URL above.

  If you are not logged in under the correct username account then clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies prior to logging into another account

  If the log-in information is lost you need to visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

  Read also: Account Recovery https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/

  Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made except for the one stated here http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  To empty site content and keep the URL see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/

  Note also that you can transfer the blog to another username account
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

  Alternatively, to change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found):
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1