Deleted file still showing up in search engine

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  nancieteresa · Member · Jul 2, 2014 at 12:51 pm

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  A file containing personal information is showing up via my blog files through search engines. I searched for the file in my media and thought I deleted it… but it is still showing up. Any advice how to get rid of it?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 7, 2014 at 3:30 am

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  Deleting blog content and deleting blogs does not remove any indexed content 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 completely remove an entire page from Google search results: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en