Deleting a blog

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  travelsandtalks · Member · Feb 27, 2017 at 9:01 pm

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  How do I Delete my whole account? I want to delete this blog because I have new ideas for it and want to start all over

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

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  carlalberto · Member · Feb 27, 2017 at 9:15 pm

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  Hi itsjustcammi,

  If you just want to empty the contents, please follow these steps- https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/

  But if you wish to delete a WordPress.COM hosted blog, you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to navigate to Dashboard > Tools > Delete Site. The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  https://wordpress.com/settings/delete-site/NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com

  *Replace “NAME_OF_BLOG” with the actual name of the blog in the URL above.

  Please let me know how it goes ok?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 27, 2017 at 9:16 pm

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  You can start over on the very same site using the same URL by emptying the content in the site.

  You must be logged in under the username account that registered the site first. Then to empty the site and keep the URL you have two options:
  (1) Doing this quickly and easily yourself http://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/
  (2) Waiting in a queue and having Staff do it for you.

  If you have a lot of content Staff can empty the whole blog for you. That will remove all data including posts, pages, tags, categories, comments, and uploaded files and once deleted, the data cannot be recovered.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting sites and/or site 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

  If you are sure you want Staff to proceed, and you are prepared to wait then type modlook into the tags in the sidebar of this thread for Staff attention, and post here again to:
  (1) confirm the URL of the blog(s) you want them to empty;
  (2) confirm that you know content deletion is irreversible.