Exit account

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    melindavandenbrink · Member ·

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    I want to exit the domain melindavandenbrink.wordpress.com, because I have a hosted website (wordpress.org.).
    Or at least make my domain melindavandenbrink.wordpress.com inactive.

    Kind regards,
    Melinda van den Brink
    Blog url: http://melindavandenbrink.wordpress.com/

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

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    You can simply set the wordpress.com blog to “private” with this option:

    I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose – Select this option to create a private blog. If you want others to be able to view your private blog (and add comments, if you’ve enabled them) you’ll need to invite them to be a viewer.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

    If you ever change your mind about using your free blog it will be there waiting for you.

    If you are absolutely certain you’ll never use the free wp.com blog/username again, then you can delete the blog:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

    Be aware that wp.com does not recycle names so if you delete it, it is gone forever:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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    melindavandenbrink · Member ·

    Thanks, I changed my blog into private.

    I just dont want search engines to index my domain. My former setting was ‘Ask search engines not to index this site’, but my site was still indexed by google.
    Will it disappear now?

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    I don’t think it will disappear from all search engines. I have read on these forums that it might take Google 6 months to re-index its listings, but Yahoo never deletes anything. I can’t find the quote(s) right now though I know it was raincoaster who has mentioned this in the past.

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    In addition, because the name is sort of your real name your blog (and this public forum post) it might be impossible to completely erase. Eventually the blog will return a 404 not found error, at least in Google once they change their cache…

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    That was me, and I rely on it all the time. You have to contact each search engine and ask them to delete your content to be absolutely sure. Not only that, but you can’t just contact google.com. You have to contact google.ca, google.co.uk, etc, etc, etc.

    The site probably got indexed when someone linked to it. If it never had much google juice to begin with, your new site will quickly bury it in the search engine rankings.

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