Migration from WP to WordPress.com

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  mindiachistx · Member · Sep 9, 2015 at 2:03 pm

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  Can I Propagate/Migrate My WP based Website Happy Grandparents Day On WordPress.com Without lossing SEO??

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 10, 2015 at 9:40 am

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  Any change in hosting or URL will lead to a temporary drop in search rankings as search engines will need to re-index your site at its new location. This can take several weeks after which your site should return to its previous ranking.

  However, I see your site uses a different link structure than the one used on WordPress.com (i.e. your post links don’t include the dates while they will if you move here) so that might complicate matters, but I really don’t know for sure.

  Keep in mind that WordPress.com has excellent SEO, so you should still be able to rebuild your search ranking fairly quickly: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/