Deleted site showing in google searches but current site isn’t showing at all
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We have gone through all the help things and checked all settings but no posts / pages are searchable and it’s very frustrating ! Please can someone help ?
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Hi – thanks for your reply. The current site is theretroplayplanet.wordpress.com Hope you can help ! Thank you :)
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Hi there,
That site is not deleted. It is very much active, and belongs to the account you’re using to post here.
If you want to delete that site, you can do that at My Site ->Manage ->Settings:
However, note that this will only delete the site from our servers. It will not remove the site from search engine indexes, nor will it it delete cached version of your site at search engines or other places like the Internet Archive. To remove cached copies like that of your site, you’ll need to contact the sites where your content is cache directly.
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Hi ! Yes, that is the active site ! Sorry, I thought that was what I was asked for. The old deleted site is retroplayplanet (without “the”) and it’s not a huge problem if it shows as it can redirect BUT the new site doesn’t show up on searches at all and that is the issue. Can you help with that ? It’s really frustrating for my son :( Many thanks.
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That site was only deleted a week ago.
Google does not index the web in real-time, it can take weeks or months for it to remove sites which no longer exist and add new sites.
You can track the process by adding your new site to their search console: https://wordpress.com/support/webmaster-tools/#google-search-console
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Hi – thank you for your reply. We have already done that, so we just need to be patient and posts etc will start showing up eventually ?
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Hi there,
We have already done that, so we just need to be patient and posts etc will start showing up eventually ?
Yes, indeed as it can also take weeks or months for new sites to appear in search engines:
WordPress.com automatically sends notifications to Google with every post and page update. The search engines can take 4-6 weeks or more to add any new sites. Connecting a Google account with verified site ownership through Google’s webmaster tools may help register your site for inclusion. Please contact Google for more information.
Be sure to create original, quality content as well. It will help your search engine rankings.
For more information, please visit our support page:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
Thanks!
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