Migration from wordpress.com to self hosted
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Dear Happiness Engineers,
I moved my WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress site and I am afraid I have lost my WordPress.com stats and email followers.
Is there a way to retain the SEO juice from my old blog in the new self hosted site as some of my pages were featuring in top page of Google.
My old blog:
http://calvy.wordpress.comMy new blog:
http://www.dogwithblog.inThanks!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Provided you have installed and activated the JetPack plugin http://jetpack.me on your WordPress.org install, and you post the relevant URL(s) into a forum thread, Staff will do the transfer of both subscribers and stats for you. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/#wordpress-com-to-self-hosted-site Do that now please as I have tagged this thread for their attention.
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Thanks Lady!
Quite like your twitter stream, happiness engineers are indeed saviors! :)
Regards,
Abhi -
Hi again,
I’m not a Happiness Engineer lol :D I’m a Volunteer who predates the existence of Happiness Engineers. When I began answering questions here there was a single Moderator, a single Support Staff and a single thread of FAQs in a single support forums. We have come a long way baby, for sure. :) -
To this lad lost amid codes, cache and other dangerous words, you are a Happiness Engineer:)
Indeed, you all have come a long way thanks to awesome support and friendly guidance! I can understand how cumbersome it might be to deal with queries as trivial as that of mine.
Wags and woofs from India!
Regards,
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Howdy,
Your stats and followers have been moved over for you. :-)
As far as your SEO juice is concerned, it’s based on your URL. So your older address of http://calvy.wordpress.com/ has the juice associated with it for now.
On our end, you can purchase a Site Redirect upgrade to automatically redirect folks visiting your old site to your new site, which will help some.
The bump with that is your old site, the posts are in the format of http://calvy.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/post-title/ while your new site has http://dogwithblog.in/post-title/
The redirect will sent folks from the former to http://dogwithblog.in/2013/12/19/post-title/ which won’t work since it doesn’t exist.
You have a couple of options—either change your permalinks to a year/month/day/title format on your new site’s Settings->Permalink page or add in a redirection on your site from /year/month/day/title to /title/. Changing the permalinks will break any existing links to the dogwithblog.in site (that you may have shared already).
If you have any questions or need anything else, please let me know. Cheers!
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Thanks Sir, works like a spell! :)
I used a plugin called ‘Velvet-blue’ to update the url, would it solve the issue of permalinks?
Please also suggest if I should keep the old blog i.e. http://calvy.wordpress.com public/private or if I should have a post telling readers that it has now moved to http://www.dogwithblog.in
Would I need to submit the new url to search engines and google authorship all over again? I will read through the wordpress Redirect feature.
Thanks in heaps:)
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Cool.
That plugin works for links within your site—for example, if in a post, you link to another post of yours. It doesn’t address if folks “land” on your site at http://dogwithblog.in/2013/12/19/post-title/ (from the Site Redirect, for example).
If you don’t add a site redirect, I would add a post to http://calvy.wordpress.com/ announcing the change.
Google Authorship, you’ll want to do again with the URL.
For submitting the URL to search engines, if you use the Site Redirect and account for the permalinks, you won’t need to submit URLs again (and you’ll keep the traffic heading toward the old site). If you don’t use the Redirect, you will need to submit your new site again and build up SEO from scratch.
Cheers!
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Thanks for the response.
Is there a free plugin that serves the purpose of retaining SEO – something like 301 redirect?
My concern is this thread – losing SEO results even after a paid 301 redirect https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/301-redirect-to-my-self-hosted-wordpressorg-blog-not-working-properly
Should I discontinue http://calvy.wordpress.com or make it to private as google might penalise my new site dogwithblog.in for having duplicate content?
Thanks again!
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Hi Calvy,
Since your existing SEO exists on WordPress.com, there’s not. The Site Redirect upgrade is our option for that.
The redirect lets Google know where the content is now living, as well as ensures that anyone visiting your site from a link on another site will be forwarded to your new site. Without it, visitors will land on your http://calvy.wordpress.com/ site.
Which leads to the final question—if you disable it or make it private, you’ll lose the SEO juice associated with your calvy.wordpress.com site and have folks who are coming to your site from other sources stranded.
Cheers!
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Hi Brandon,
What’s the cost for purchasing Redirect form WordPress.com for a year (which I believe would be a fair period for google to be notified of permanent redirection).
I don’t have a credit card, does wordpress accept debit card payment as well? I’m from India and currency would be in INR.
Thanks for your patience with my queries, appreciate it:)
Cheers!
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Hi again,
I can provide some information and Brandon will provide the rest.Site redirect upgrade http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/
Below are the only accepted means of payment.
WordPress.com uses PayPal as the payment processor, and as such, can only accept payment from countries they support: https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/
If for whatever reason, they have chosen to block payment from your country, you will not be able to purchase an upgrade here unless you have a source of payment outside of your country.
In addition to major credit cards Mastercard, VISA, American Express, Discover, and PayPal https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/ WordPress.com can accept echecks and some debit cards.
The debit card must have a VISA or Mastercard symbol on it, and should work just like a credit card when selecting the VISA or Mastercard option on the payment form, even though it’s a debit card.
More about echecks here:
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/article/?solutionId=13054&topicID=11500008&m=TCIWordPress.com also accept Bitcoin for payment of certain upgrades ( bitcoin cannot be used for domain and premium theme purchases) – you can learn more here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/pay-another-way-bitcoin/
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One more query, Kraft…
Although followers and comments have been restored, the email subscribers seemingly have been lost. calvy.wordpress.com had over a thousand followers, is there a way to move them to dogwithblog.in?
Thanks!
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Thanks Timethief,
Good to read from you, again. Checked your helpful site earlier in the day… must for writers!
As for redirect, if I opt for a one year service – shall I discontinue the calvy.wordpress.com blog after a year? Would it again hamper the SEO.
The other concern that I have is regarding the duplicate content on dogwithblog.in after the redirect period has expired.
Thanks!
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Thanks timethief!
After a year, Google and the other search engines would likely have caught up. If your site had links from other blog posts, those would still likely point to the your original site.
The most foolproof way for SEO is to keep the Site Redirect on a long as possible, though after a year or two, the benefits may not merit the cost.
After the Site Redirect is disabled, I’d either make private or delete the blog to avoid duplicate content.
With the e-mail transfer, all of the followers were transferred over. The count that we include on the stats page for WordPress.com (and the Follow Widget) include followers via your social media). Jetpack, currently, doesn’t report those numbers. In short, you haven’t lost followers, but the counting style is different between the two platforms.
Cheers!
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Thanks Kraft!
I will opt for Site Redirect, figuring the payment option(s).
The plugin ‘Velvet-blue’ has converted the url(s), for instance:
http://calvy.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/happy-bday-blue-bird/
to
http://dogwithblog.in/happy-bday-blue-bird/would Site Redirect take care of the missing date fields in the posts(s). I am not well versed with codes, would you suggest a plugin that may help the cause.
Looking forward to close this redirect thing soon to concentrate on writing posts:)
Thanks!
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You mean, going from http://dogwithblog.in/happy-bday-blue-bird/ to http://dogwithblog.in/2013/12/02/happy-bday-blue-bird/ ?
That’s built-in to WordPress. Visit the Settings->Permalink page on your dogwithblog.in site and select the “Day and Name” option.
Cheers!
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That’s fine, but the Site Redirect won’t work as well, unless you add some type of ongoing redirection from the date style to the one you’d like, or in other words, have it setup if someone visits http://dogwithblog.in/2013/12/02/happy-bday-blue-bird/ , it will take them to http://dogwithblog.in/happy-bday-blue-bird/
The volunteers at the WordPress.org support forums may have some ideas on how to do that in a relatively simple way. They can be reached at http://wordpress.org/support/
Otherwise, when Google visit http://calvy.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/happy-bday-blue-bird/ , the Site Redirect will take them to http://dogwithblog.in/2013/12/02/happy-bday-blue-bird/, which would return a 404 Not Found error page (unless some type of ongoing redirection is setup or the permalinks include the date).
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