Moving worpress.com to worpress.org

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  rentgeeen · Member · Jul 23, 2010 at 8:28 pm

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  I am export my blog to files by using worpress.org. After I am gonna change the nameservers pointing to Worpress.com to other host, what should I do with the blog hosted on worpress.com, shpuld I leave it as is or delete, what’s gonna happen in both situations?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 23, 2010 at 9:38 pm

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  @rentgreen
  It’s important to avoid creating duplicate content blogs as Google can and will penalize if you do not follow proper procedure. Please see here > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359

  I recommend changing the blog visibility of the wordpress.com blog to “private” to keep out search spiders and visitors. Pleas see 1. here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Hope this helps. :)

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 23, 2010 at 9:47 pm

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  Thanks TT

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  rentgeeen · Member · Jul 23, 2010 at 9:59 pm

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  I understand the Duplicate Content with google, when I am gonna change the Nameservers: ns1.worpress.com to other host, nothing will point to worpress.com blog so nothing can load that blog – but I guess for sure I can set the PRIVACY settings not to be visible and that will do the trick?

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 23, 2010 at 10:13 pm

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  If you set to Private, it takes a password to see the content – Google will never get there.

  You have a Mapped Domain so Google will think that it is the same site. By setting “your-old-site.wordpress”.COM to private then Google will never see “your-old-site”