Deleted Media still accessible through Google Search.

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  itsworsethanieverimagined · Member · Jun 7, 2018 at 1:10 pm

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  I put up a post a few months back and deleted it but it is still showing on Google search and the PDF is accessible through wordpress.com.files/myusername, i.e. https://bucktonsite.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/**************.pdf. When I found it was still up I tried deleting the PDF from my media library but to no avail. It still is accessible to the public which I do not want. Is there anyway to get WP to delete this PDF from the servers?

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

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  sophiafigueroa33 · Member · Jun 7, 2018 at 1:18 pm

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  Good morning!

  Thanks for contacting us! I found some info relevant to your situation at the following support site: https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/. There’s some extra tips you can take to see if it will help to prevent your info from coming up in the search engines.

  Thanks and hope this helps! :)

  PS: I’ve added a modlook tag to this thread as well so that a staff member can check and see if there’s anything they can do about your PDF.

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jun 7, 2018 at 3:12 pm

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  Hi itsworsethanieverimagined,

  bucktonsite.wordpress.com is a deleted site containing no PDFs or posts. The content appearing in search results is a copy Google has created, which is something we have no control over. However, you can make a request for Google to remove them from search results using the Remove Outdated Content tool:

  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

  Be sure to add the URL copied from Google’s search results rather than the original post or file hosted on WordPress.com.

  If you are still seeing a file when visiting the PDF link, please try clearing your browser cache. It sounds like you may be seeing a cached version of the file there.

  Please let me know if you have any questions.