Deleting a (free) blog
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Hey there,
I’ve set up another (paid – domain) blog and I want to delete my (free) version.
The thing is that I would like to use some of the posts on the free blog to the new one.My question is this: deleting the content and the old blog itself will remove the content from google? If I use an article from the old blog on the new one, will it appear as duplicate content in google even after deleting the old blog and its content?
Or how can I solve that? the new blog has roughly the same name, just without the blog.wordpress.com tail.
Thank you,
Vlad C.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Vlad,
deleting the content and the old blog itself will remove the content from google?
Yes. This will take sometime but after deletion, your blog won’t show up in Google search results.
If I use an article from the old blog on the new one, will it appear as duplicate content in google even after deleting the old blog and its content?
As there will be no prior record of your first blog, I don’t think there should be a problem in uploading it again. It won’t be identified as duplicate content.
You can delete site by following the page –
https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
Note:
Once you delete your (free) site you can’t have the same domain name. Read the link below before doing so.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
You can instead empty your site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/Let me know if you need further help!
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@vladcc, @krutidugade,
If I use an article from the old blog on the new one, will it appear as duplicate content in google even after deleting the old blog and its content?
There may be duplication for a short time, if the article on the new site is picked up by Google before the deleted article on the old blog drops out of Google results.
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Thank you so much for your fast replies @krutidugade and @musicdoc1.
Do you know roughly how much time it takes for google to “forget” the old blog and its content?
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Hi!
As mentioned by @timethief in thread https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-account-2102?replies=2#post-3040257
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):
I hope this helps!
Thanks!
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