If I upgrade to a custom domain name do I lose my likes, shares and hits?

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  16beasleyst · Member · May 24, 2015 at 11:12 am

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  Just contemplating upgrading domain name and wonder if any posts that have been shared on Twitter, Facebook, etc. will still show, similarly if someone has liked a post and for the number of hits on the blog.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · May 26, 2015 at 6:22 pm

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  Sadly, yes.

  The social network all calculate those stats by using a site’s URL. So if you change the URL, the count reverts to zero. There is no way around this I’m afraid.

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  16beasleyst · Member · May 26, 2015 at 7:44 pm

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  OK, thanks for confirming, I’ll give it some thought

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · May 26, 2015 at 11:23 pm

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  Happy to help.