Old posts cannot be found by Google

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    eliassencoker · Member ·

    I redirected to my own domain recently. When I google my older posts now, it goes to the old URL and displays the following message: “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?
    It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.” Is there a quick fix for this?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    jeremeylduvall · Member ·

    Hi there!

    It looks like you exported and imported all of your content into your new self-hosted blog. It can take a bit of time before Google indexing your new site and starts to direct users to the new domain instead of the old one.

    The easiest way to solve this is to have the permalinks between your old WordPress.com blog and new self-hosted blog match. That way, even if someone stumbles upon your old blog, it will automatically redirect them to the same post on your new blog. Does that make sense?

    For example, here’s a permalink to an old post on your WordPress.com blog:

    http://www.agreenerheart.no/2014/02/06/lindehagen/

    That same post can be found here:

    http://agreenerheart.no/uncategorized/lindehagen.html

    Because the URLs don’t match, the redirect is unable to find the same post. If you switch the permalinks on your self-hosted site to “Day and name” under Settings -> Permalink, your post URLs will be changed to match the WordPress.com URLs. Then, all of the old WordPress.com posts will redirect to the same post on your new blog. Does that make sense?

    Please note, once you switch the permalink URLs, you will temporarily have some error messages. If you flush your cache, that should be resolved. Instructions can be found here:

    Solve Common Browser Issues

    Let me know if that’s what you’re looking for!

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