WordPress website and WordPress.com

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  pierredeman250026194 · Member · Oct 24, 2020 at 3:21 pm

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  I have my own domain and I am running WordPress on it.
  I was wondering, that if I post something on my own site, does it also appear on the discover page of WordPress.com?
  Or is there something I need to do on my website, so people who visit WordPress.com, can also see and find my website?

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  pierredeman250026194 · Member · Oct 25, 2020 at 1:08 pm

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  Or can this give you penalties with Google, for duplicate posting?

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Oct 26, 2020 at 9:25 am

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  Hi there!

  To clear up any further confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities.

  We, WordPress.com, are a cloud-based platform where we manage WordPress sites, whereas WordPress.org is stand-alone software that you can download and self-host with any other hosting.

  You can find more details about WordPress.com and WordPress.org on this support page:

  https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/

  That said, whatever you post on your self-hosted site will only be posted there. If you connect your site to your WordPress.com account with Jetpack, your posts will be displayed in the WordPress.com Reader:

  Homepage

  Discover is a blog that’s curated and the editors pick the content to be posted there:

  https://wordpress.com/support/getting-featured-on-discover/.

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  pierredeman250026194 · Member · Oct 26, 2020 at 12:49 pm

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  Thanks for the info.
  The first part was already clear to me, but the other things are helpful.