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  simonwright61 · Member · Sep 9, 2013 at 10:24 am

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  I want to change my domain name but do not want to cancel and start the whole process again. I registered as englishteachergeneva but I would like to put English-teacher-geneva

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  iamclickysteve · Member · Sep 9, 2013 at 3:21 pm

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  Howdy Simon,

  Could you clarify for me whether:

  1. You wish to have your current domain cancelled, and english-teacher-geneva.com registered instead?
  2. You want to keep your current domain, and have english-teacher-geneva.com registered in addition?

  If it’s the first option, then I can go ahead and have the domain cancelled for you, and credit your account so that you don’t need to go through the charging process again.

  Let me know and I can get this sorted out for you!

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  simonwright61 · Member · Sep 9, 2013 at 4:16 pm

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  Howdy steve,

  I have been advised that it would be better to separate the words for search engine optimisation. If that is true then yes i would like to cancel everything i have done and start again with the new domain name….english-teacher-geneva.com. Will that separate the words and help me?
  Does this sound logical and sensible?

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  simonwright61 · Member · Sep 9, 2013 at 8:53 pm

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  Hello Steve;

  I am completely new to all this. I want a website and i am not really interested in a blog. Maybe it would be better to start again with the new domain name. HELP

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  simonwright61 · Member · Sep 9, 2013 at 8:54 pm

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  Hello Steve;

  I am completely new to all this. I want a website and i am not really interested in a blog. Maybe it would be better to start again with the new domain name. HELP

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  iamclickysteve · Member · Sep 10, 2013 at 10:20 am

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  Hey Simon,

  You can have a read at some of the ways that Search Engine Optimisation (called ‘SEO’) works on WordPress.com here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  and

  All About SEO on WordPress.com

  That said, don’t let this confuse you! WordPress.com sites by their nature are designed to be search engine friendly. We also have a Global Tagging (Topics) system that search engines love, and we ping out to all the major engines every time you update your blog. ( http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ ) We’ve got you covered!

  It’s really up to you whether you want to switch to a hyphenated domain, but if it was me I’d stick with what you have already and concentrate on producing some great content :)

  Let me know what you think, and we can go from there.