i want my old deleted sites to be deleted from google search.

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  jsomeone · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 7:12 am

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  I googled my username and found search results of my old deleted websites. i do NOT want any of my deleted sites to be searchable at all. how to get them off the web?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 19, 2015 at 7:29 am

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  Hi there. Deleted blogs can still show up in search engine results (not just Google, but others like Yahoo and Bing too) for several weeks after you deleted the blog. That’s because search engines keep cached copies of your website on their servers to make searching easier.

  If your site was verified with Google Webmasters you can put in a removal request to remove your site from their cache (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en), but otherwise you will simply have to wait until Google (and the others) refresh their caches.

  To be clear, there is nothing that WordPress.com can do about this.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 10:57 am

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  Actually, the stuff stays up there for a lot longer than you’d think. On Google, typically six months. Yahoo China never seems to delete anything, ever. And you have to contact each search engine and usually each national version of each search engine, too.