Forward from a .com to.org on own domain

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  jericgulgardin · Member · Aug 2, 2010 at 2:15 pm

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  I have had my blog on .com now for a couple of years I decided to move the blog from the .com to org platform to get more freedom in themes, plugins and so on. I thought i could just forward so when people found my .com blog on google it would be forwarded to the post on my new domain gulegardiner.dk. For instance google has indexed http://gulegardiner.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/charlies-bar-4-gardiner/ but I want it forwarded to http://gulegardiner.dk/?p=84

  Is this possible. As I can see now, it is only possible to get the.com blog redirected and mapped to the new domain. But then I lose the flexibility of .org?

  Anybody know anything of this

  Best regards
  Jeric

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 2, 2010 at 2:59 pm

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  Looks like this is at least part of the answer: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/redirecting-your-blog/

  The Support Documents are your friend

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  jericgulgardin · Member · Aug 2, 2010 at 4:59 pm

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  Sorry but this is not what I am looking for. This is the opposite of what I want. THen I cannot use the wordpress.org flexibility. This what I stated.

  Anybody else have any suggestion?

  I have new themes and plugins on the new domain from wordpress.org. If I just redirect .com blog I will lose this!

  Best regards
  Jeric

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 2, 2010 at 5:10 pm

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  How about moving your .com blog to your .org site:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
  and your links:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/import-export-links/

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  jericgulgardin · Member · Aug 2, 2010 at 6:09 pm

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  Thank you for the suggestion

  I have done exactly what is written in these manuals. I have gotten all the content and links over. That was very very easy and worked like a dream Took only about 2 minutes :-)

  I have also gotten a much better theme and look (at least I think so)

  The only part I miss is my good ranking on some of the posts (or pubs I have reviewed) in google. I am between hit 1-5 on many posts on Danish google. this has been helped through the last 2 years.

  I do not know how fast I can obtain this if I scratch the .com blog and just use the domain blog.

  I am a little surprised others have not had this challenge. Or will I get as good ranking with all the SEO plugins?

  Thank you for the effort!

  Best regards
  Jan Erik

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 2, 2010 at 11:43 pm

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  There is no combination of plugins that can give you teh googlejuice of WordPress.com. And there isn’t any way around it that I can see. If there were, I’d be using it myself.

  For preexisting posts, here are the redirect instructions:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/redirecting-your-blog/

  I couldn’t figure out how to get it to work when I already was using the domain on the other site, so I just set the posts here to private and had a static page that points people to the new site. It’s too bad: my hits here were easily four times what they are now.