WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Deleted blog still shows up in Google search results http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleted-blog-still-shows-up-in-google-search-results WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Deleted blog still shows up in Google search results en Sat, 18 May 2013 22:36:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 auxclass on "Deleted blog still shows up in Google search results" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleted-blog-still-shows-up-in-google-search-results#post-1050967 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:18:08 +0000 auxclass 1050967@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Had you not deleted the old blog you could have bought the Site Redirect Upgrade and sent visitors and search engines to your new site.

]]> raincoaster on "Deleted blog still shows up in Google search results" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleted-blog-still-shows-up-in-google-search-results#post-1050814 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:45:16 +0000 raincoaster 1050814@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It goes away after a number of weeks or months. The more you blog on your new site, the faster the transition happens.

]]> seb2point0 on "Deleted blog still shows up in Google search results" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleted-blog-still-shows-up-in-google-search-results#post-1050802 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:10:20 +0000 seb2point0 1050802@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello

We had a blog on WordPress.com which we moved to a self hosted WordPress installation on a domain we own. After creating the new site, I went in the wordpress.com blog dashboard ans deleted the blog and all of it's content. Meanwhile, 2 weeks later, it still shows up in Google search results and shows this page : http://lilletoastmasters.wordpress.com

Since it no longer shows up in my blog list, I have no options to delete this page and I can't even re-create it. I simply get a message saying that the name is taken.

Does this go away after a while ? Is there something else I need to do in order to remove the page completely. This is quite a problem because the old adress ranks higher in SEO than our new one.

Thanks

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