upgrading from wordpress.com to just ".com"

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  bostongirl29 · Member · Feb 12, 2014 at 10:55 pm

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  if you upgrade from wordpress.com to just “.com,” will anyone visiting/searching your wordpress.com website be re-directed?

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 12, 2014 at 11:24 pm

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  If you use Domain Mapping to change the name – then all the old URL’s will work as will the URL’s for the new custom domain name. Search engines will learn after a while that you have changed the domain name and the old domain name (old-site.wordpress.com) will drop from the search results and new-name.com will replace the old-site name – but old-site will keep on working – sort of like magic

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  timethief · Member · Feb 12, 2014 at 11:27 pm

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  Duplicate – already answered here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/upgrading-from-wordpresscom-to-just-com-1?replies=2#post-1647450