Pivot old blog or start new?
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I have an ‘old’ free wp blog i started in 2011 (abandoned in 2012 but still gets about 200 views a month just floating out there without me doing anything to it apart from a couple recent updates), then i started a ‘new’ one in 2017 (which ive paid for domain name for and web hosting i think) which gets about 2 views a month!. Realised that i’d really like to merge them somehow- I’m thinking it would be easiest to bring some relevant old content over to the new site but i’m hesitant to loose the traffic flow and SEO from the content on the old site and could probably revamp and pivot the old site to accommodate the new content. Whats the best thing to do here? Thanks in advance!
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Hi @littlegreenseed, are the sites both here on WordPress.com?
If so, here’s what I would do if I were in your shoes:
1) Export from the old site
2) Import into the new site
3) Add a site redirect sending traffic / search engine links from the old to the new: https://wordpress.com/domains/add/site-redirect/
Does that help?
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Thanks, yep that clarifies things a bit. Both sites are on WordPress, how do i go about getting someone to assist me directly in doing this? are there wp experts for hire? thanks.
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Follow these instructions for each step.
Export: https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
Import: https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
If you have question, or run in to trouble, come back here and let us know.
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Thanks for the help with this, I have exported the old content and imported into the new site. Wondering though- are there now two copies of all this content on the web? should I be deleting the posts from the old site? or just do the site redirect and keep both? Thanks again.
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Hi there,
Yes, there are two copies now. You can, however, make the old blog private thus preventing its content from showing up in search results. Here’s how to do that:
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And what does this mean for SEO? will the traffic that’s been organically finding the posts on my old site since 2011 automatically be directed to the new site? or is the old site web address and longevity part of the SEO success?
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It’s not automatically redirected, but you can make it so with a redirect upgrade. If you’d like to use that you can get it here:
https://wordpress.com/domains/add/site-redirect/
The redirect upgrade will also send header information to search engines so that they’ll know to update their links to point to the new site.
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