My stats have collapsed since moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

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  tokyojinja · Member · Jun 8, 2014 at 4:59 am

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  Hi there,
  I just recently moved from .com to .org and my stats have collapsed. Basically I have half the views that I used to on a daily basis. Can you help me understand why and what is going on. This is extremely upsetting.
  Thanks,
  Jacqueline

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jun 9, 2014 at 2:32 pm

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  Did your URL change when you made the switch? That can cause a drop in search engine results until the site/URL is reindexed. Did you migrate your followers/subscribers to your new site?

  http://jetpack.me/support/subscription-migration-tool/

  Overall, WordPress.com has pretty outstanding SEO that can be hard to match, at least initially, with a standalone self-hosted site. Additionally, the WordPress.com community can generate a lot of traffic through the Reader and topic/tag searches that can’t be duplicated with a self-hosted site.

  There are advantages to using a self-hosted WordPress.org site. But there are a few disadvantages as well.