Change in blog website

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  aliceebennett · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 7:31 pm

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  I’ve changed my blog’s website address to myhousematesamermaid…, can I move it back to the old one I had before (grimgrad) in the future and regain blog views?

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 7:33 pm

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  This blogs already exists https://grimgrad.wordpress.com/
  And at this point all you can do is export content out of the other blog and import it into that one. See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-between-wordpress-com-blogs

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  timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 7:37 pm

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  and regain blog views?

  When you change a blog URL without purchasing a site redirect upgrade http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ every link to the original content under the original URLs no matter where it is found on the internet is broken and produces a 404 (page not found) error message. The blog starts again under the new URL with zero authority and page rank and it takes weeks for search engines to reindex the same content under the new URLs.

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  aliceebennett · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:45 pm

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  That’s great. Thanks for the advice and help!