Trying to transition to a different website

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  fruitlandvalleyvineyard · Member · May 14, 2020 at 8:13 pm

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  I want to close this site and direct others to my fruitlandvalleyvineyard.com. I keep seeing this non-fuctioning site pop up in my search engine. I don’t want fruitlandvalleyvineyard.wordpress.com to come up in the search engine. how do I change that before I close this account?

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · May 15, 2020 at 6:58 pm

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  Hi there,

  You will first need to stop indexing the site, delete the site or mark the site as private so that search engines no longer have access to the site.

  From there, it’s up to Google to decide when and how to include/remove this page from search results, WordPress.com doesn’t have any control over that. For more information you can read our FAQ about search engines here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  You can try requesting removal from Google by following the instructions here:
  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92865

  Google also provides information and tools for webmasters, you might find further information on their tools here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/

  Let me know if you have any questions.

  Thanks!