Transferring stats and followers
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Hi, I would like to transfer my followers and stats from fronaness.wordpress.com to http://www.fronasreadsorelse.com. Can you do that instead of me, please?:)
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can install the Jetpack plugin http://jetpack.com and move your subscribers by following this guide https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/#wordpress-com-to-self-hosted-site
After Jetpack is installed Staff will move your stats.
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Hi there,
I see you already moved your followers, but there were 3 new followers on the old site, so I moved them over as well. You might want to set the old site to private to prevent it from getting any new followers.
I’ve also merged the stats for you.
Please let me know if I can help with anything else.
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Hi! Thank you very, very much! I do have one more question.. How can I follow other blogs now?
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You can still follow other blogs exactly as you did before. While logged into your WordPress.com account, click the follow button bottom-right on their sites, or via the Follow Blog widget.
New posts will appear in your Reader, and you can sign up for email notifications if you want. Any blogs you followed before you switched to the self-hosted site should still appear in your Reader, as you’re still using the same WordPress.com account.
You might also want to change the website linked to your username to the new site’s URL. That way when someone clicks your username on a notification or a comment they’ll be taken to your new site. You do that by editing the Web Address field in your account settings:
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Thank you! I’m planning to close down wordpress.com account and only use the self-hosted one – how to follow others from there?
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Jetpack, which allows you to move your followers over and which gives you stats tracking on your site, only works if it is connected to a WordPress.com account. If you disconnect Jetpack from your account, your followers won’t receive updates for new posts any more, and your stats will stop working. So you still need this username account.
You can delete your old WordPress.com site by going to My Site ->Settings, but the username cannot be deleted.
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Ok, thank you again. Perhaps I will even keep the old blog and update/write new posts only on the new one. Thanks, you really helped me a lot:)
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If I may make a suggestion: Periodically export new posts from your Jetpack site and import them to your old WordPress.com site. That way you have an extra backup should anything ever go wrong with the Jetpack site.
Just make sure your WordPress.com site is set to private so it won’t get new followers, and so Google doesn’t penalise you for duplicate content.
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Great, I will do that, thank you again! Otherwise, is there something wrong if I move the new followers (that are still coming) from the old to the new blog (multiple times)?
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There’s no problem if you prefer to do it that way, no. As long as both sites are in this account, you can move new followers over at any time.
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