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If I were to buy a premium WordPress domain and — say — I were to cancel my premium account, would my whole domain (site) be deleted? Or will it be moved to a free/ non-paid WordPress domain (domain.wordpress.com)?
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It would revert automatically to the underlying .wordpress.com URLs but do read on. Canceling a domain mapping upgrade is not a good idea. Do not purchase any upgrade containing domain mapping if you are not intending to be in this for the long haul.
If you allow a domain to expire or remove domain mapping the content is still available under the .wordpress.com URL however there’s a but and it’s a HUGE one.
Every link to the domain URLs no matter where it appears in search engines and on the internet as well as every internal link to your earlier content will be broken. When clicked they will all produce 404 (page not found) errors.
All authority the domain URLs earned that contributed to the site’s pagerank will be gone. In essence, removing domain mapping means you are throwing that away and the blog begins from zero. Thereafter you will be hard pressed to publish enough content rapidly to drive the search results to the broken links down in the SERPs (search engined page results).
It will take up to 3 months before search engines re-index the content under the underlying .wordpress.com URLs. Then the content will begin to appear in search engines results and when clicked those links will direct to the content rather than being broken links.
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