Want to upgrade my blog without losing ranking

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  amazinggsunny · Member · May 2, 2019 at 7:49 am

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  Hi, I have a wordpress blog https://seodelhiexpert.wordpress.com/ ranking for many competitive keywords. Now I want upgrade my blog to get a better premium design and plugins. But I’m afraid the change in domain will affect my SEO. So, let me know if i can put permanent redirection in business plan? to recover it soon…

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  gemmacevans · Member · May 3, 2019 at 10:53 am

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  Hi amazinggsunny,

  Upgrading seodelhiexpert.wordpress.com to the Premium plan and adding a custom domain won’t affect your SEO. We will automatically redirect anyone visiting the free address to the new custom domain — so this isn’t something you would need to do manually.

  Google’s Change of Address tool can be used to notify them of new URLs for your existing content (for search engine results):

  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

  Now I want upgrade my blog to get a better premium design and plugins.

  An unlimited number of Premium themes can be used on the Premium plan. Custom plugins (and third party themes) are only supported on WordPress.com sites using the Business plan though:

  https://wordpress.com/plans

  Please let me know if you have any questions.