change name and keep followers?

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  spettijohn · Member · May 18, 2013 at 7:35 pm

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  Can I change name from say 123.wordpress to say abc.wordpress and still keep my followers?

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  timethief · Member · May 18, 2013 at 8:50 pm

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  If you do change your blog address, permalinks to your old address, including search engine results, will be broken unless you purchase a Site Redirect upgrade. You can purchase a site redirect upgrade so the links to your existing content that have already been indexed by search engines do not become broken links. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/
  Purchasing the upgrade means your subscribers will be transferred to the new URL.