How to leave WordPress
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Hello — I can’t seem to find an answer to my question. If I leave WordPress and move my blog to another platform altogether (say, SquareSpace), do I have to pay some kind of exit fee of any kind? BTW, I have two sites with WP, a dot net and a dot com — NOT a dot-wordpress.com blog address.
Thanks.
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No exit fee – just export your content and import it to your new site if you still use a WordPress software platform. You only loss would be any upgrades you might have purchased and have not yet expired.
If you have any domains registered with WordPress then just change where the name servers point to, you can keep the registration here.
Easy,
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Thanks much. SquareSpace charges for each domain you park there. Not so good. Follow up question: right now I have a primary WP website, a monetized dot net, and I have a regular website dot com both under the same account. But when I do a google search on the dot com, nothing comes up at all. I have to cut and paste the http://www.blahblah.com into the URL window to get there. What gives? What I need is for my two independent websites to be “findable” via separate searches. Does my queston make sense?
Thanks!
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Without real links to the sites, we can’t even guess.
Are they self-hosted on a third-party hosting service such as godaddy, bluehost, etc?
Are they hosted here with the domain mapping?
How old are they? If they are under a couple months, then it can take 4-6 weeks for the search engines to find you and it can take 6 months to a year before you will have enough search engine ranking to show up higher in searches.
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If you’re moving it, why would we even answer? The answer and the result will change as soon as you do that.
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Sacredpath: Thank you. Your reply clarifies a lot. Both my domains are hosted with Bluehost. One is over a year old, the other only a few days. The name of the latter is unusual — arbadacarba.com (abracadabra backwards), a fact that gave me pause re: why it wouldn’t show up in a search.
Raincoaster: If I understand your question correctly, the answer is “because WordPress treats its users well, even when they ask about departing.” I’m not sure if your use of “we” means “every other WP forum member,” or just the royal we, meaning you.
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This is being posted in case your haven’t used the Google Webmasters Help Center
Check your site is in the Google index
Make sure Google can find and crawl your site
Make sure that Google can index your site
Make sure your content is useful and relevant
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34444&ctx=cb&cbid=-gvlk44erxdqe&cbrank=0#1 -
The thing is, your sites are not hosted here at wordpress.COM and these forums are for sites hosted here. Self-hosted sites are supported at http://wordpress.org/support/ . Things here work differently and in general our answers will not apply to you.
Shutting down a self-hosted blog and moving it elsewhere cost you nothing (depending on your contract with your hosting company).
It might be a couple days before you can get onto squarespace since they were taken down due to the Amazon EC2 debacle. Seems the cloud fell out of the sky.
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You’re asking questions about a blog you’re moving off WordPress.com. The instant you do that, the answer to the question changes. You can get the answer to that at WordPress.org.
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