Integrating your personal installation of wordpress to wordpress.com

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    horibenny · Member ·

    Sorry if this is a stupid or redundant question – I honestly made an effort to find the answer before posting.

    I am running my own install of wordpress but want to reap some of the benefits of wordpress.com
    Specifically:
    1. the personalized yourblog.wordpress.com URL
    and
    2. making your blog searchable on wordpress.com to the rest of the community.

    Is there some setting to do this or would it require maintaining 2 blogs – one on wordpress.com plus my own personally hosted blog.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    supportbot · Member ·

    The blog you specified at http://www.benher.org does not appear to be hosted at WordPress.com.

    This support forum is for blogs hosted at WordPress.com. If your question is about a self-hosted WordPress blog then you’ll find help at the WordPress.org forums.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    1 nope

    2 nope.

    Those benefits are ONLY available to blogs actually hosted at WordPress.com. If you do two blogs, one hosted here, with identical content, staff requests that you set this one to Private. Duplicating material on different websites may add visibility in a certain sense, but it will cause search engines to throw you into the bottom of a deep well. They hate that.

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    husdal · Member ·

    You need to maintain two blogs. Which means that your main blog will not be searchable on wordpress.com, unless you post the exact same content, which I would advise against, since Google may or may not penalize you for having duplictae content. On the other hand, you can blog about your other blog on wordpress.com, and refer/link to it, thus increasing your readership.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Except that staff have repeatedly said that if the main purpose of a site here is to direct traffic to a site off WP.com, it’s subject to suspension or deletion. It’s really not a good plan to waste time building something, only to lose it.

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