www and non-www

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  theredgiant · Member · Jul 31, 2020 at 9:51 am

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  I’m planning to migrate my Blogger blog on a custom domain to WordPress Business plan. I learned that WordPress.com does not support www on the address , and that all URLs with www will be 301-redirected to the non-www version.

  My blogger site is well established with thousands of posts. I worry that making the change from www to non-www may create all kinds of issues with Google including Google considering it as a new website. I already lost much traffic when I changed from HTTP to HTTPS. I don’t want that to happen again.

  Please help.

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  supernovia · Staff · Jul 31, 2020 at 6:37 pm

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  Hi @theredgiant, the 301 in the redirect should help Google understand it is not a new site, and that the content was simply moved to a non-WWW location.

  I do worry a bit about redirecting from https://www though, since that may bring up an error rather than a redirect. Would you be willing to share a link to your site so we can check on that for you?

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  theredgiant · Member · Aug 1, 2020 at 4:54 am

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  All 301 redirects carries a risk, when it’s sitewide. I want to avoid it.

  The website is https://www.amusingplanet.com

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 3, 2020 at 7:36 am

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  There is no way to avoid this. The www subdomain cannot be used as your site’s primary address on WordPress.com, and will always redirect to the non-www version. This is a system-level setting on WordPress.com, and we cannot adjust it for individual sites.