deleted site still showing up on google search

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  sweetiepieweddings · Member · Aug 11, 2021 at 1:41 pm

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  hello, i need to delete my site but it is still showing up on google. How can I stop this? I have a new site and this is preventing others from seeing it first. Thank you so much!

  Site: sweetiepieweddings.
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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 11, 2021 at 6:03 pm

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  Hi! If the site is fully deleted, this will work:
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663691?hl=en
  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/url-removal?pli=1

  Another option, if the old site has great SEO and was only recently deleted, you could always forward the old site to the new site: we would need to un-delete it for you (which is only possible for 30 days post deletion) and then you would add a redirect upgrade for $13/year. That can help move your SEO from the old to the new, assuming the content is still the same. And the redirect will tell Google and other search engines that your site has moved.