deleted site still comes up in google searches

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  lauralouu · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 2:43 pm

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  is there a way to stop this from happening?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 5:25 pm

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  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content does not remove 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 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