Is it possible add my new blog to Google? Now only the deleted blog shows up.

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  vkaycoff · Member · May 15, 2014 at 4:58 am

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  I made a blog, “illgrillo.wordpress.com,” that had a serious error–should have been “ilgrillo” not “illgrillo.” But “ilgrillo” was taken and so i remade the blog as “ilgrillomusic.worpress.com.” Everything was the same as the original. I then deleted the original (should have kept it and posted a redirect notice, i realize now).
  Now, however, when i search for the new site in Google, i get a “not found.” NOTHING! Only the old, defunct blog, “illgrillo.wordpress.com,” shows up.
  So, to repeat, it possible add my new blog to Google and other search engines? So that at least both of them are available. Or is there a way to post something to redirect traffic?
  THanks very much!

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  timethief · Member · May 17, 2014 at 6:24 pm

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  You can buy a site redirect after you delete the blog. To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines