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  sepheralight · Member · Jan 15, 2013 at 11:52 pm

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  I recently changed URL of my wordpress site and it’s not coming up on Google now.

  I have a Contact page and I would like the site to come up when I search say Kinesiology and Liverpool.

  Please help.

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  sepheralight · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 1:10 am

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  Can anyone give me any tips for my website, thanks.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 1:41 am

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  You changed the URL. As far as Google is concerned, it’s a brand new website, and it will take around 4 months to regain its previous status.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 1:44 am

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  @RC

  Would site redirect help? If the old address is gone not sure if it could be redirected – the instructions imply it would work

  Site Redirect

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 1:45 am

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  PS – blog more – new Posts bring search engines to your site

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 1:47 am

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  I don’t know. You’d think if it did, it would be offered as part of the name change procedure.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 1:48 am

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  Good point

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  sepheralight · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 2:00 am

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  I see well I was sepheralight.wordpress.com before but I can’t change it back for now because I own that under my list of blogs.

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  sepheralight · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 2:10 am

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  Anyway to get it back to how it was?

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 6:14 am

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  http://sepheralight.wordpress.com/ is alive and well – just export from your new blog and import into your old blog – then after you make sure things were moved OK delete the content from the new site that you just left and put a note that you are back where you started

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  hellocolby · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 6:45 am

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  Yep, your you can send your new site details to Google and it will take them three weeks to list it.

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  sepheralight · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 7:20 am

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  Do I have to delete the content from the new blog so that google doesn’t think I’m plagiarising or something?

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  sepheralight · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 7:25 am

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  Thanks all I have imported all all my posts to the original (email visible only to moderators and staff)

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  sepheralight · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 7:32 am

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  Is it possible to have a static page as the front page and then have a link to blog page?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 16, 2013 at 9:43 am

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  Set the extra blog to Private, so you have somewhere to test themes and widgets. It’s always useful.

  You can set a static page as the opening page by creating the page, then going to Settings->General (or it might be Reading) and choosing the static page from the drop down menu.