WordPress.com – WordPress.org

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  jdarch1 · Member · Mar 26, 2012 at 1:28 pm

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  Very new to all this –
  Can I transform my wordpress.com site to wordpress.org, if so how?
  Thanks

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

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  shlokinani · Member · Mar 26, 2012 at 5:37 pm

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  visit here

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  timethief · Member · Mar 26, 2012 at 5:50 pm

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  @jdarch1
  If you are planning a do it yourself move this article may be helpful > Setting up a self-hosted WordPress.org install
  If you wish you can have Staff do this for you by purchasing a guided transfer.

  Your blog is indexed by Google (14 results).
  Your blog is indexed by Bing (1 results).

  If you wish to have the links to those indexed posts seamlessly redirect to domain URls then you may wish to purchase a domain mapping upgrade.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/
  Then you can update the nameservers and point them to your WordPress.org site.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/#update-nameservers

  Please allow me to explain why I am suggesting this. The reason we purchase domain mapping is so that all the URLs from the .wordpress.com root blog when clicked seamlessly redirect to the same content in the post under the new domain URLs.

  The pagerank and authority the blog earned was earned by the .wordpress.com URLs and belongs to them. It’s not transferable. so what that means is the domain starts from zero. In about 4 – 6 months time the content will all be re-indexed by search engines under the domain URLs and all things being equal the blog will probably have the same pagerank and authority it had prior to purchasing domain mapping.

  If you do not purchase domain mapping then all those .wordpress.com sub-domain domain URL’s are broken and the blog reverts to the old .wordpress.com URLs. Then all those broken links are there for months until the search engines like Google index them again under the .wordpress.com URLs and clear their caches (3 – 6 months).

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  timethief · Member · Mar 26, 2012 at 5:57 pm

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  @shlokinani
  I would like to respectfully ask for your cooperation. When you post linked anchor text please take note that “visit here” is not-descriptive text. Instead please use the appropiriate anchor text such as moving-to-wordpress-org

  If you cannot provide a complete answer to a question being posed then please search and locate the appropropriate fully developed answers of experienced Volunteers here, who have previously answered the same question and a link to their answer.

  Thanks, in advcance, for your consideration.