blog url changed

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  leoniehall · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 5:23 am

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  I changed my blog’s url from brightbluelemons to leonieatinnovationiq, the new address doesn’t come up in google searches but the old link does. My blog is receiving no traffic or referrals from sites.
  All the posts moved successfully but it’s as if the site is invisible (yet it’s marked as my primary blog).
  Must I republish each post so that it reads from the new url?
  Blog url: http://leoniehallatinnovationiq.wordpress.com/

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 7:04 am

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  This is what happens: your new URL is as far as search engines are concerned entirely new. It’ll take three or four months for your new blog to get up to your old blog’s levels of traffic and referrals.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 7:12 am

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  Look on the bright side – you kept the old URL active and you have an “I have Moved” message and link so your visitors will not run into a black hole – also do a few more blog Posts on your new blog / site – that will help tell search engines that your new URL is around –

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  leoniehall · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 11:32 am

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  :-) Thanks for the comments and advice! I’ll get busy!
  Happy Friday to you both!