Will changing my .wordpress address lose my followers?

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  1creativephotography1 · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 10:04 am

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  Hi. If I cahnge my blog address, will I lose my current followers?

  Also, if I pay to lose the .wordpress.com in my blog address (in my current address) will I also lose my current followers?

  And if I change my blog address and lose the .wordpress.part will I still keep or lose my current followers?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1creativephotography1 · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 10:12 am

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  Hi. I forgot to put my Blog address, oops!

  http://mybyeworld.wordpress.com

  So my original Question relates to this blog address.

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 6, 2012 at 2:54 am

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  Hi. This is the best I could do in terms of finding an answer:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-blog-address-question-re-subscribers?replies=4

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  1creativephotography1 · Member · Jan 6, 2012 at 8:36 am

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  Hello, Thanks for that. I read a bit further down on that post and somebody from WP I presume, said that subscribers ‘may’ be able to be transfered but that WP cannot promise it.

  Aghh, don’t know what to do now. I don’t want to risk losing any of my followers as they have taken a while to build up.

  Do you think if I keep my address but upgrade to lose the .wordpress.com part I will still keep my subscribers???

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  jeherve · Staff · Jan 6, 2012 at 9:57 am

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  Do you think if I keep my address but upgrade to lose the .wordpress.com part I will still keep my subscribers???

  If you use the custom domain upgrade, your followers will still receive the updates when you publish a new post.

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  1creativephotography1 · Member · Jan 6, 2012 at 7:01 pm

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  Thanks Jeherve, very much appreciated.

  Will it still show how many subscribers I have got on my home page as it does now?

  And will everything stay the same, in terms of no physical changes to my blog that I have not made personally?

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 6, 2012 at 7:06 pm

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  Will it still show how many subscribers I have got on my home page as it does now?

  And will everything stay the same, in terms of no physical changes to my blog that I have not made personally?

  Yes
  Yes

  The only thing that changes is the address in the browser bar.

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  1creativephotography1 · Member · Jan 6, 2012 at 7:18 pm

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  Auxclass, thank you very much….I am happy that bit is sorted and I am all clear and confident now about losing the .wordpress.com part. :-)

  What about if I totally change my blog address?

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 6, 2012 at 7:34 pm

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  My answer is accurate as long as you change with domain mapping –

  If you change from my-blog.wordpress.com to my-new-blog.wordpress.com then my answer does not apply and I am not sure what will happen – depends on how the address is changed

  If you upgrade with domain mapping to a domain name you buy then the change is seamless and all the old links work and the search engines go to your new pages automatically

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  1creativephotography1 · Member · Jan 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm

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  Ok great. Thank you very much, I got it :-)

  I guess the more serious you get about blogging….

  Thank you everyone who has helped me with all of this, I am very happy! :-)

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 6, 2012 at 7:55 pm

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  You be welcome & good luck