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  tallsilver1 · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 3:50 pm

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  I want to take my site offline but not lose my ability to use the domain name in the future

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 3:53 pm

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  Hello there,

  All blogs are independent websites. What you do on one has NO impact on others. To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

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  tallsilver1 · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 5:40 pm

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  Hi thanks. I did that and it didn’t take it off when I searched in google. I went ahead and deleted the whole thing. Do you know how long it will take before it won’t show up in a search. It was a very unfinished site – Im not sure how I published it to begin with – unintentionally for sure. It looks pretty poor for my business.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 5:41 pm

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  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content does not remove indexed content 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. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it is deleted and it produces a 404 (page not found):
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1

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  tallsilver1 · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 6:02 pm

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  Thank you very much for your help. I’ve deleted the url. Just to clarify, are you saying that even though I have deleted the page of my site on wordpress, it will still show up on the web for 3-6 months? :-(
  (before I deleted it, I checked make my site only visible to allowed users, but that didn’t seem to make a difference either)