Permanently Delete Media Even from Direct URL

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    mrrosentel · Member ·

    My Media URL and its content still exist even after I delete the document from the media library and check the URL on a previously unused browser. The media I’m trying to permanently delete is this: http://mrrosentel.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/social-studies-prohibition-dbq-student.pdf. I read through some related posts, but my problem seems different since it doesn’t appear connected to the cache and now no longer exists in my media library but can still be accessed from anywhere. Will it just take time, or is there something else I should do?

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    timethief · Member ·

    That media file has not been deleted because it’s not producing a “404 page not found”. To keep things running quickly around here, files are held in multiple caches through a separate system. These caches are usually cleared within 3 days.

    IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content does not remove any indexed items from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.
    https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

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