domain change

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  mrwedrowny · Member · May 27, 2020 at 12:13 pm

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  Hello,
  I’ve changed domain name and didn’t realise my google ranks will be lost and my website will no longer be available for the same keywords search.
  How can I get back to an old domain?

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  adarshhalan · Member · May 27, 2020 at 2:28 pm

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  Hi,

  Can we have the site url please?

  Please note that these forums are for WordPress.com hosted sites only. If your site is using the open-source WordPress.org software you need to seek help at these forums:
  https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

  Thanks

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 28, 2020 at 9:39 am

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  Hi there,

  A site address change cannot be reversed. We can restore the old address for you, but you’d need to move everything back to it manually by exporting and importing. If you want to do that, please confirm the URL that you want to get back.

  That said, this is completely normal. Any address change on a website will lead to a temporary loss in search engine traffic, as search engines will need to re-index your site at the new address first. Continue publishing new content on your site, and within a few weeks your search ranking should return to what it was before.