deleting my old site

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  alesiada · Member · Jun 11, 2018 at 5:20 pm

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  Hi im trying to delete a site that is inactive but also have a hosted site elsewhere with the same user name (it was not my choice). Will this effect the other site at all? Please clarify.

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 11, 2018 at 5:34 pm

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  This is an independent wordpress.COM hosted site http://theactorsrepertoire.wordpress.com/

  re: deleting WordPress.COM hosted sites

  All sites are independent. What you do on one or to one has no impact on any other site. To delete a WordPress.COM hosted site 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/ note the alternatives provided there.

  Prior to deletion warnings are issued. Deleted wordpress.COM blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and the only exceptions are made are for URLs that were deleted 2 or more years ago. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  If you are not logged in under the correct WordPress.COM username account then clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies prior to logging into another account

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting sites and/or site content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. 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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 11, 2018 at 5:36 pm

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  I forgot to remove a paragraph above that no longer applies. It starts with “Prior to deletion …”