After deleting your website, it is now time to prevent search engines from crawling it

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You can also delete your WordPress files using an FTP client . If you're not familiar with FTP, check out our beginner's guide to using FTP .

Step 3: Block search engines with Robots.txt

With the robots.txt file you instruct search engines not to crawl your pages.

Remember that this robots.txt-Dateiis just a guideline. Most search engines respect it, but some lesser-known crawlers may ignore it completely. Don't worry, we'll show you how to deal with those too.

First, you need to robots.txt-Dateicreate a new one using list of mobile cell phone number the file manager in cPanel or via FTP.

However, an easier way is to use AIOSEO or WPCode . For more details, see our guide on how to optimize your robots.txt file in WordPress .
These 2 lines prevent any user agent or crawler like Googlebot from accessing any URLs under your domain name.

Step 4: Hide content from search engines
Even if your content no longer exists, search engines may still display it for some time.

Search engines know that websites can go down due to technical glitches, so they continue to display content for a while and hope that your site will return.

You must explicitly inform search engines that your content is no longer available and has been permanently removed.

The easiest way to do this is through the .htaccess file . To do this, you need to create a new file in the root directory of your website and .htaccessname it.