Site redirect: is RSS feed redirected, too?
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1) I understand that if I change my blog address from abc.wordpress.com to xyz.wordpress.com and then buy a 301 redirect, exisiting email and wordpress followers will be handed over to the new blog address automatically and seamlessly, correct?
2) What about existing RSS feed subscribers? Will they automatically receive posts posted on the new site? Or do I have to post a special xml redirect command? (http://www.rssboard.org/redirect-rss-feed)
3) Is it correct that I can change the blog address to another WP blog address that I already own (same user)? Will the two blogs then be “merged”?
Thanks.
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I realize that I can’t change my blog address into another one I already own.
In that case, should I
a) simply buy a 301 redirect to the new address and export&import the blog content? Are followers and RSS subscribers still transferred to the new address in that case?
b) or first delete the new blog/address, and then transfer the old blog to the now free new address? Is that safe, or will the new address be blocked when I delete it and not be (immediately) available for a transfer?
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Hi there,
1) I understand that if I change my blog address from abc.wordpress.com to xyz.wordpress.com and then buy a 301 redirect, exisiting email and wordpress followers will be handed over to the new blog address automatically and seamlessly, correct?
A site redirect only causes someone who clicks on an old link for the old address to be re-routed to the corresponding link on the new address instead. It has no effect on your site’s feed or on followers.
But if you change a site address using the Change Address tool, your followers are moved over to the new address along with your content – they might not even notice anything has changed.
2) What about existing RSS feed subscribers? Will they automatically receive posts posted on the new site? Or do I have to post a special xml redirect command? (http://www.rssboard.org/redirect-rss-feed)
People who follow your RSS feed directly will not receive updates from the new site in their feed readers, as the new site has a completely different feed. It’s not possible to redirect an RSS feed on WordPress.com.
For this reason it’s a good idea to publish a post on your site announcing an address change, so people following the feed correctly can follow the new feed as well.
3) Is it correct that I can change the blog address to another WP blog address that I already own (same user)? Will the two blogs then be “merged”?
If you use the Change Address option, you can only change to a brand new address that doesn’t exist already (you cannot change to a deleted address, so please don’t delete the new address if you’ve already created it as that will just prevent you from using the new address altogether.)
All content, stats and followers are then moved over to the new address, and the old address is either deleted, or a new empty site is created there.
If you’ve already created the second address you want to use, you need to manually export/import your content to the new site. Once you’re ready, let us know and we can move your WordPress.com and email followers, and your stats to the new site. Likes cannot be transferred.
a) simply buy a 301 redirect to the new address and export&import the blog content? Are followers and RSS subscribers still transferred to the new address in that case?
Addressed in my answer above
b) or first delete the new blog/address, and then transfer the old blog to the now free new address? Is that safe, or will the new address be blocked when I delete it and not be (immediately) available for a transfer?
Also answered above, but to reiterate: If you delete a WordPress.com URL, that URL is gone. No one, including you, will be able to register that address again, and you won’t be able to change any site’s address to a deleted address.
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Thanks kokkieh, a supreme answer as always by you. :-)
Would be nice if WP at some point could also integrate the RSS feeds into the redirect offer. As described in the RSSboard link above:
“The HTTP 301 redirect: If you can configure your blog’s server to issue an HTTP 301 (“Moved Permanently”) response to requests for your old RSS feed, or if your server’s administrator can do this for you, then RSS readers should redirect to the new location.”
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On our end it doesn’t really matter, and I don’t really know about Google. I do know search engines in general don’t like redirects very much, so I’d say rather redirect to the primary domain so there’s only one redirect. If you redirect to the free address, it means there will be multiple redirects as we’d again redirect that to the mapped domain.
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