Move WordPress site to WordPress.com

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  nickolaslesch · Member · Jul 3, 2021 at 2:54 am

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  Hello, I have a website mini grease gun on WordPress but I want to move on WordPress.com without loosing any rankings and my data, how is it possible? Thanks!

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  staartmees · Member · Jul 3, 2021 at 5:20 am

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  To move your site to wordpress.com, see https://wordpress.com/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

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  nickolaslesch · Member · Jul 3, 2021 at 8:58 am

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  Thanks, will try it.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 3, 2021 at 12:34 pm

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  Hi there,

  Just a note that any change in hosting or domain usually comes with a temporary dip in traffic from search engines. I see you use a post permalink structure of domain/post-slug on your site, for example, and unless you migrate to us on our Business Plan, that will change to domain/date/post-slug on our end, so search engines will need to re-index your posts at the new URLs.

  But all sites hosted on WordPress.com are optimised for SEO out of the box, and should get re-indexed by search engines within a few weeks, after which things should return to normal in most cases.

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  nickolaslesch · Member · Jul 5, 2021 at 1:41 am

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  Oh I got it, I think it will affect my rankings and I have to do a lot of work too.