Deleting Image Permanently

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  sarathrap · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 3:33 am

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  I have deleted a Media(image) file in my wordpress.com account and still its getting referred through google search and when I opened that link its still opening. I want it to completely delete from my wordpress account and not accessible to any search engines

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  Sarath

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  timethief · Member · Nov 17, 2014 at 5:01 pm

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  Please make sure the media file has been deleted and is producing a “404 page not found”. To keep things running quickly around here, files are held in multiple caches through a separate system. These caches are usually cleared within 3 days.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content does not remove any indexed items 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. Please see https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

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  amightywp · Member · Nov 17, 2014 at 9:36 pm

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  Hi Sarath,

  Which file are you still able to see online? Could you please provide the link so we can review this issue?

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  sarathrap · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 10:34 am

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  Hi Timetheif….thanks for your reply. Yes I understood your point and I agree with that and it happened same with Google,. now I am no more getting hits from it. But I can see media still file remaining un-deleted in my sccount.http://sarathrap.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/mysore-palace.jpg
  I have delated this general pages and

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  amightywp · Member · Nov 18, 2014 at 3:49 pm

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  Hi there,

  The image at http://sarathrap.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/mysore-palace.jpg has been fully removed from our servers. If you haven’t yet, please clear the image cache on your own browser to ensure that when you visit the image you aren’t seeing a local version (you can verify this by pulling it up with another browser which you’ve never used to view this image).