Redirecting from one blog to another?

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  bluelilydesign · Member · Jul 8, 2011 at 5:36 pm

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  Hi…is there a way to redirect my old blog at blogspot to my new one here? Thanks!

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

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  timethief · Member · Jul 8, 2011 at 6:03 pm

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  I cannot tell if you are referring to a domain that you own and want to be domain mapped to a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
  domain mapping an existing domain > http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  Or if you simply have a blog on a blogspot.com subdomain. In either case you must export the content out of the blogspot blog into a file on your desktop. Then you need to import that content into a WordPress.com blog and change the visibility on to the blogspot blog to “private” if you do not intend to have it as your primary blog. Or if you do intend for it to be your primary blog then to avoid a duplicate content situation you will have to change the visibility of the new WordPress.com blog to private. Instructions here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
  duplicate content Google > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359

  The reason you must change the blog vsisbility to “rivate”

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  timethief · Member · Jul 8, 2011 at 6:05 pm

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  Sorry about that trailing sentence above.

  The reason you must change the blog visibility to “private” if you retain both blogs is that duplicate content blogs can be penalized by Google. duplicate content Google > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359