Will I keep my followers if I make a new url?
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Hi all:)
I was wondering: if I make a new wordpress url and transfer my content, will I keep my followers, comments and likes of my posts? Is it a new chance to be indexed by google? (Or will my rank stay the same?) Are redirects to my new site free? Sorry, I’m really confused and I’m not sure if it is worth making another free wordpress.com site only because my indexing in google is extremely poor. (When I search: thatchicfashionblog)The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Duplicate thread – already answered at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/help-will-i-loose-my-followers-if-i-change-my-url?replies=3
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Is your main reason for wanting to change things up that you don’t have the search ranking you’d like? Is it important to you that you rank specifically for “thatchicfashionblog”?
If so, I recommend you stay where you are. It looks like you just started blogging on June 11th and you are already starting to build some momentum. The search rankings will follow so long as you keep blogging about “chic fashion.” Google gets better and better every day and finding the best real content on the web so any attempt to game the system is becoming at best a waste of time, and more likely something that can actually backfire.
Changing your URL will just increase your wait.
(Basically this is just a long version of the advice TT gave you on your other thread, but since you asked the question here, I thought I’d answer here in case future forum visitors have a similar question.)
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sorry TT–I was answering here and planning to mark the other one duplicate–but you are speedy as always and beat me to the punch :)
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@lizthefair Yup. You got it! This is exactly why I wanted to change my blog url. I just felt that my blog name was so unoriginal that no one would find me on google if they would search for my blog:(
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I agree with TimeThief–it’s way to early to be worried about that. It’s much better to stick with what you have and build your audience where you are than it is to jump from name to name.
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@lizthefair
No problem. :)@thatchicfashionblog
Here is one more link that may be useful
How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/More free advice that clients pay for.
Avoid reblogging.
Avoid participation in memes like blog awards.
Focus on creating and publishing original content posts frequently. In those posts wherever possible and appropriate to do so, backlink to relevant related posts found in blogs with high authority and high pagerank in the same niche your blog is in.
On those same blogs be sure to submit meaningful comments that add to the information in the post content or cultivate further discussion in the comments section.
It is in your best interest to be the one and only blogger on your site. Do not allow your blog to become a platform for guest bloggers and do not add any official blog users. -
Oh sigh … there is always one more thing to share and I could publish a book. Ultimately, everything on a blog contributes either positivity or negatively to its brand.
It sucks bigtime but there are opportunistic parasites in every crevice of the blogophere so your need to get smart about them.
It is important not to approve and post any hollow comments like well done or excellent pôst. Be that all the content on your blog including comments do play a role in how your blog will viewed and positioned by search engines.
There are commercial folks with gravatar accounts in all niches but primarily in photography lately who submit hollow comments and click like buttons just to get traffic back to their own sites. Do not approve hollow comments. Approving dumb comments makes you look dumb and it attracts spammers.
You also need to be able to spot pingback spam and fail to approve any of it. See here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/06/trackback-and-pingback-spam-what-to-do/
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P.S. If any bloggers reading my posts here are thinking I gain money from providing links to my posts threads and getting ad-clickers then think again please. I pay to blog here and I have a No-Ads upgrade on my blog. It exists only to help others and for no other purpose.
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