Changed site address
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I recently changed my sites address from customization option but now my followers or anyone cannot see my new posts when they because wordpress redirects them to my deleted site address . I am not getting any views or comments on my new posts. How can i resolve this?
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Hi there,
What is the URL of your site? And what is the link of a post that goes to your deleted site?
We’re not redirecting anyone to the deleted address, as that’s quite impossible.
But any links that already exist on the web, like links you shared on Facebook, would take them to the deleted site, as it’s the address for the site that no longer exists. Changing a site address only changes it here on WordPress.com, and any existing links for the old address will no longer work.
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what am trying to ask is i have changed my site address i.e zooniblogs.wordpress.com and i have noticed since then am not getti g any views or visits on my new posts. So what is the matter? Can people see my new posts on my new site address or not? I think when they want to visit my blog it redirects them to my deleted site uzmablogscom.wordpress.com and it appears uzmablogscom.wordpress.com is no longer available.
Please help me resolve this
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No one is being redirected. But anyone clicking on an existing link on the web for a post on uzmablogscom.wordpress.com would get a Deleted Site screen (or as you apparently requested to have that site undeleted in another support request you made today, now they’ll land on an empty site.)
A redirection is if someone clicks on one link, and get taken to a completely different link, and this is not what’s happening here.
Your blog is now on https://zooniblogs.wordpress.com/, and anyone who wants to see it will have to go to that address. People who are subscribed to your site will automatically see the new address in the Reader or in their email notifications when you publish a new post, but otherwise no one will know your site is at a new address unless you tell them that.
It will also take several weeks for search engines to re-index your site at the new address, so until that process is complete you won’t be receiving any visitors from Google search results.
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Thankyou for the reply. So that means whenever I comment on other peoples posts what they will see is zooniblogs.wordpress.com? if they want to check out my blog?
or it will take them to my deleted site uzmablogscom.wordpress.com? Secondly those people who subscribed to my site earlier would still get a notification from my new site address whenever i publish a new post? -
So that means whenever I comment on other peoples posts what they will see is zooniblogs.wordpress.com? if they want to check out my blog?
When you comment on someone’s site, your username links to whatever website you have specified in your profile at https://wordpress.com/me/account. The Web Address specified there is a static piece of information that doesn’t update automatically if you change your site address – you can add a link to any website there, it doesn’t even have to be a WordPress.com address.
In other words, you’ll need to update that manually to link to your new address.
Secondly those people who subscribed to my site earlier would still get a notification from my new site address whenever i publish a new post?
Correct. Everyone who was following your site at the old address, is still following it now at the new address. They were all moved to the new address along with your site content when you did the address change.
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