Hoping to reverse my domain name
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Hi, I have changed my domain name from ‘areddisheart’ to ‘adeliciousword’ last night. But I realised the deleted domain is still appearing on google and thought anyone who bookmarked my page may not be able to read again. I’m very sorry for the inconvenience. Could you possibly reverse my domain name to ‘areddisheart’? Thank you.
I have done a research and saw there’s a similar case:
https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/is-it-possible-to-reverse-the-domain-name-change/WP.com: Yes
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Hey there,
Happy to help you with this.
It’s not possible to reverse the site address, which would make https://adeliciousword.wordpress.com/ and https://areddisheart.wordpress.com/ completely separate sites to each other.
But I realised the deleted domain is still appearing on google and thought anyone who bookmarked my page may not be able to read again.
To check, do you wish for your site to be found under: https://adeliciousword.wordpress.com/?
If yes, what I’d recommend is configuring a redirect from https://areddisheart.wordpress.com/ to https://adeliciousword.wordpress.com/ as so to maintain that traffic, and for search engines to acknowledge that redirect.
This can be added and reconfigured from this screen here: https://wordpress.com/domains/add/site-redirect/
I hope this is useful information thus far.
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Hello aleone89,
Thank you for getting back to me!
Does it mean that whenever people click on my page on google under my old domain name, there will be a redirect message for them to click and go to my new domain site?
Irish
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Hi Irish,
Does it mean that whenever people click on my page on google under my old domain name, there will be a redirect message for them to click and go to my new domain site?
They’ll be automatically redirected without clicking on a confirmation message. It happens in the background; they won’t notice they’ve been redirected. They only see the new address.
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Good to know!
Will my google search rank of certain posts be affected if the domain name is changed? -
Changing a URL always causes a SEO hit of some sort. But it should be a short term one as Google should notice the changed URL as some point and update.
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I see. I was about to make a redirect as the first reply suggests.
Just want to confirm there will be a cost if I do the redirect? -
Hey there,
Yes there is a cost for the redirect which is $13 a year.
I’d probably recommend absorbing this cost if maintaining the traffic and search rankings of the site is a priority – at a minimum of just the first year.
I hope this helps. :)
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