Retiring a WP.com blog gracefully: Migration from .com to .org site

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  mikeclayton · Member · Apr 11, 2017 at 12:17 pm

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  I plan to move content from a WordPress.com site to a self-managed WordPress.org site.

  I plan to use 301 re-directs and got good advice here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/301-site-re-direct-to-ssl-site.

  This is more an SEO than technical question…
  What are best practices for retiring the old WordPress.com site gracefully?

  In particular:
  – I’d like to keep the old site up for a while, so anyone looking for the home page can still find it during transition.
  – But I don’t want to incur Google penalties for duplicate content.

  Does anyone have any good advice or any sites to recommend I look at?

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