I deleted my website to start over, I'd like to use same website name again.

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  leedramartin · Member · May 15, 2015 at 10:03 am

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  I deleted my website to start over and I’d like to use same website name again.How do I go about doing this?

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 15, 2015 at 10:35 am

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  You can’t. There were several warning while deleting your site, including in the confirmation email, that warned you that deleting the website will cancel that URL forever. No one, including you, can ever use that URL again. You’ll have to pick a new one.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  leedramartin · Member · May 15, 2015 at 10:41 am

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  :-(

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 15, 2015 at 10:43 am

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  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news :)

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  leedramartin · Member · May 15, 2015 at 10:46 am

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  Crying buckets and rivers…..used to working with flash sites like wix.
  In Afrikaans we’d say “Dom Gekom”

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 15, 2015 at 10:52 am

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  So leer mens, as we also say in Afrikaans ;-)

  Continuing in English for the sake of other forum users: Keep in mind there’s an infinite supply of blog URLs out there. You can register a different address and still use the same TITLE on your blog as you want.

  If you’re willing to pay for your URL you can always also check if you can’t get the one you want as a custom domain, for example, leedramartin.com, leedramartin.org, leedramartin.co.za, etc. In that case visitors will only see the domain you paid for, so it won’t matter if the free one underlying it is different. See here for more info: https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

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  leedramartin · Member · May 15, 2015 at 10:55 am

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  lol Thanks

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  leedramartin · Member · May 17, 2015 at 6:25 pm

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  My bru! How do I modify SEO settings in a free site. Shoo, pulling out my hair here.

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  leedramartin · Member · May 17, 2015 at 6:43 pm

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  Tis fine, don’t answer that saw it on some other FAQ.

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 17, 2015 at 7:42 pm

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  I’ll answer anyway, not knowing what you saw :)

  There’s no SEO settings for us to modify, regardless of whether you have a free or upgraded blog. WordPress.com takes care of all that for us. You just focus on creating content.

  See these links for info on SEO and WordPress.com:
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/