Upgrade to a domain

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  wirtzbill · Member · Apr 22, 2017 at 10:07 pm

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  Hi!
  I was planning on upgrading to a domain and wondered if my old wordpress.com links will automatically link to the new domain. If yes (or no), how will this affect SEO results? Thanks for your answers!

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 23, 2017 at 3:41 am

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  if my old wordpress.com links will automatically link to the new domain.

  Yes, they will.

  how will this affect SEO results?

  Changing a domain usually always results in some amount of short term negative SEO. But it almost always is quickly resolved as search engines learn the new domain.

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  wirtzbill · Member · Apr 23, 2017 at 12:43 pm

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  Thank you for your answers! Is there any tool with which I could fasten the process of search engines finding the blog again? Something provided by Google for instance?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 23, 2017 at 3:58 pm

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  The short answer is no, not really. Search engines keep their systems as secret as possible to keep people from trying to cheat them.

  But there is some general info here on search engines that may help:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

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  wirtzbill · Member · Apr 23, 2017 at 4:31 pm

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  Ok! Thank you for your help!