Need some help after moving my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
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I’m sure this question has been asked again and again, and I hate to be broken record, but I want to be sure the solutions I’ve read do apply to my situation.
Yesterday, I moved my WordPress.com blog (tauri33.wordpress.com) to my own domain site (tauri33gameblog.com). I was able to move all of my content, comments, & posts to the new site no problem. I even have the same theme installed so my new domain site looks identical to the previous wordpress.com site (they both even have the same titles).
My email address is registered with both sites (the tauri33.wordpress.com & the tauri33gameblog.com site). I also wrote a post, uploaded it to every directory in wordpress.com site, and changed my Home & About page’s text to reflect “I am Moving” information, so I could give any readers an opportunity to know I am stopping the wordpress.com site and continuing forward with my own domain site under WordPress.org. I only want to keep the wordpress.com site active long enough to give people a chance to read I have moved sites, then I want my wordpress.com site to go away altogether. I’m not interested in site redirections to the new site.
I’ve read that one should set the wordpress.com site to “private” so it does not appear anymore, but I have done this and have logged out of the wordpress.com admin panel, but when I go to look up my new domain site, it always directs me back to my wordpress.com site. When you set the wordpress.com site to “private” does it take a certain period of time for it to vanish altogether from search engines? Or do I need to just delete my old wordpress.com site so all that there is is the new domain site I’ve set up through wordpress.org?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Do not delete ANYTHING.
If you had a custom domain here and switched it to point elsewhere it’s going to take up to 72 hours for the DNS to settle down. What have you done to make sure the custom domain points to your new site and not your old one?
And yes, it can take six months to vanish from search engines.
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The site redirect is what helps search engines and your old visitors find your new site – when a search engine sees the redirect it should change it’s records to your new site –
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Auxclass: I didn’t want to do the site redirect because I wanted to get rid of any reference to the old wordpress.com site altogether and just have the new domain I got (tauri33gameblog.com) using Blue Host as my web host & WordPress.org. But do I have no choice but to do a site redirect? Then what? After a period of time, can I then get rid of the (tauri33.wordpress.com) site so all I have is my own domain blog site?
raincoaster: I have not done anything really to tell the custom domain to point to the new site and not the old one. I got my own new domain name from the Blue Host web host company (one recommended on the WordPress.org website), and then installed the WordPress.org software on to that domain. Then I went back to my (tauri33.wordpress.com) site and posted an entry to every category that I have moved my blog site to the new domain name. I also changed the text of my Home & About pages to reflect the same “I have moved my blog” information.
What should I do? Obviously, I’m a newb at this and I know it’s frustrating dealing with newbs like me, but when doing searches, I’d like the search engine results to pull up my new domain site and not my old wordpress.com site. Thanks again.
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You should make friends over at WordPress.ORG as they are the keepers of the software you are now using.
I would:
1) Make sure the search engines are blocked (Dashboard >> Settings >> Privacy >> block search engines allow other users
2) Buy the site redirect – it does not cost much and use it for one year – that should have your visitors trained to your new site – this will also help to train the search engines and anyone that links to your site
3) Go back in the referrals of your old site and see if you can get anyone linking to your old site to update their links to your new site
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I guess I may have no choice but to do a site redirect for now and hopefully, like you said, allow plenty of time for old and new visitors alike to get trained to going to the new site.
I know it said that it’s like $13.00 for the year. After the year is up, would I then just delete the old WordPress.com site?
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I would leave the old site but set it to “Private” after one year – and write down the log-in info –
then if you change your mind and want the base address back it is still there – once a name is deleted you can’t get it back ever –
you could also use the old site to backup your new site
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Thanks for all of the advice. I think I’ve got just one more question. After the year, then I set the old wordpress.com site to “private”, how long until any search engine queries made would point to my new site and not the wordpress.com site? That was the main thing I wanted.
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Depends. You can speed up the process sometimes by writing to each search engine, but figure on about six months for Google. Unless you write to Yahoo China, they hang on to everything forever. But as you blog more in your new site, it rises in search engine rankings and the old one falls.
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Search engines crawl your site every day – you don’t see that traffic as it is filtered out by the stats package – each time a search engine visits your old site and they find your site redirect to your new site – they SHOULD update their address information –
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I purchased the site redirect and have my wordpress.com site now redirecting to my new site. While this redirection is going on, do I need to change the “Privacy” settings (in the old WordPress.com site) away from “Allow search engines to index this site” or should I keep this setting?
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