Moving WordPress to Self Hosted – Same Domain

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    corbinreynolds · Member ·

    I’m trying to move one of my first blogs from WordPress.com to my own self hosted account, but keep the same domain name.

    I’ve already transferred the domain name to my GoDaddy account. I’ve added files and folders to the domain on my GoDaddy account, but when I open my domain name it still takes me back to the WordPress.com blog. Is there something I can do to make WordPress stop hosting my blog?

    Thanks in advance.

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    timethief · Member ·

    The Google Page Rank and Technorati authority and rank belong to the root blog ie. the original wordpress.com or blogspot sub-domain url for the blog. If you purchase a domain name and move the blog to another URL all the links will be broken unless you also purchase domain mapping so readers are seamlessly transferred between the URLs. The PageRank on the new blog on your domain will drop to 0/10. That can’t be avoided, however, in about 4 – 6 months time, all things considered you may be able to restore it.

    If you do not purchase domain mapping then they will experience a 404 (page not found – broken link) when they click on the old URLs to the root blog.

    Would you like to redirect yourblogname.wordpress.com (as well as all of your permalinks) to your new domain name? See: change name servers
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/redirecting-your-blog/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#toc

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