Moving Blog
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I have somehow moved my blog from WordPress.com and is not only hosting http://www.jimjdavidson.com I do not wat it there but want it hosted on wordpress.com how do I move it?
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I do not want to move the contents of http://www.jimjdavidson.com to wordpress.com I originally set up a blog on wordpress.com and then somehow moved to my domain at http://www.jimjdavidson.com not I wish to restore the blog back to wordpress.com When you click on my blog at wordpress.com it says it is not there. Is it possible to resolve this or should I simply deleat the blog and start over again.
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@jim,
It says there is nothing there at, http://jimjdavidson.wordpress.com/ , because whatever posts or pages you might have created are gone. They were deleted and http://www.jimjdavidson.com/ does not have any posts or blog. It is a single webpage.
You’re blog is still here, it just has no content, which is why it is saying you are looking for something that is not there. It cannot find any posts or pages to display.
Go into the dashboard for your blog here, make a post and publish it and then that warning will go away.
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Jim thanks for raising this question. You have made me realize I need to take this information step by step and be very careful with it.
I have a blog jamieatlas.wordpress.com that I would like to switch over to a wordpress.org blog but dont want to leave my 500-a-day visitor traffic behind. Is this possible or do I have to say goodbye to these guys?
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There is a trick that you can use with the domain mapping upgrade here to redirect your wordpress.COM visitors to your new blog which will keep that traffic, but as far as search engines and such, you will be starting from scratch with the new blog, and the old blog will outrank your new blog for anywhere from 3 months to as much as a year depending on how many hits you were getting on the .COM blog. It’s just the way it is.
This support document explains the trick to redirect your blog traffic here to the new blog: http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/redirecting-your-blog/ .
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I think I understand what to do, but just to clarify, I would need to ‘execute’/pay for this trick for my particular circumstance, which is:
– I started a blog on WordPress.com some years ago at http://pelokee.wordpress.com
– I then moved to a self-hosted/maintained WordPress.org instance located at http://www.pelokee.comI have imported all of the old posts, but as was mentioned above Google still directs people to the wordpress.com instance. Although I have moved to .org several months ago, the .com instance stills gets tons of traffic. I would obviously like to redirect that traffic to my new site, which has the same articles anyway.
Will the $10/year trick facilitate redirecting Google hits to my .org instance?
Great topic, thanks for any information.
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Anytime you change domain names (from http://pelokee.wordpress.com/ to http://www.pelokee.com/ for example) you lose your search engine rating. There really isn’t anything that can be done about that. The redirect trick will however send anyone going to your .COM blog over to your new blog, and yes, it will cost you $10/year for the trick. Make sure and put an announcement (as a sticky post or in the top of the sidebar) of the move and ask your readers to update their bookmarks. Also, set change your setting under settings privacy to block search engines on the old blog so that it will not compete with your new blog. I would not redirect for more than one year. By then, most of your normal readers should have made the switch, and at the end of the year, mark your blog here private so it is completely offline.
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