Remove Traces of Old Pages?

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  guitarwizard93 · Member · May 15, 2013 at 5:09 pm

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  I’ve been working on a website for a guitar shop, which basically involved logging into the dashboard and deleting all the old pages, and I started from scratch from there to maintain the same account and domain mapping etc…

  However, even though I deleted all the old pages, Google’s first results for my website are pages that no longer exist such as “Recent Posts” and things like that. Is there a way to totally wipe traces of these old pages? Photos still appear on Google images as well… I basically just want to have a totally clean slate!

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  timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 5:11 pm

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  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blog content or a blog does not remove indexed content in it 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.

  If you don’t have a lot of content you can quickly remove your contents by deleting them in bulk.
  bulk delete images & media http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/deleting-files/#bulk-deletion
  bulk delete posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit
  bulk delete pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/#bulk-edit
  Here’s how to permanently delete Trash >
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/

  Delete a Page or Post

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  guitarwizard93 · Member · May 15, 2013 at 5:18 pm

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  Damn it… OK thanks! I’ve gone through and made sure all the trash is emptied so all I have on my site now (“deleted” and live) is only what I want, now for Google to clear their cache.. Great :P

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 5:40 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.