Advice on moving from WP.com to hosted blog

theangryblackwoman · Member · Oct 25, 2007 at 1:02 am
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No, I am not asking how to do it. I already know. However, when poking around the FAQ I noticed that WP.com will not do a 301 redirect to my new site, which offers me a dilemma.

My blog gets a fair amount of hits per day and I’d like to put an ad on it to generate money. I know I can’t do this on WP.com, but if I move my blog to a hosted domain, I won’t get as many hits. Currently, I have a lot of Google Juice and I don’t want to lose it, especially as it would mean that having an ad would be less useful.

Anyone have any advice on how I could move to my own domain without a significant drop and get people over to the new blog without having to go through every entry and put a link in?
raincoaster · Member · Oct 25, 2007 at 1:47 am
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The best way is to get your own URL early, grow the blog under it, then move it to the new site. They won’t redirect a .wordpress.com URL, but if you own the name you can take it with you. This does require at least six months of rebuilding your Technorati juice, though; it takes that long for enough links to be to the new domain rather than the old one.

Failing that (and it’s past that point for your blog unless you’re REALLY patient) you can export all the content and wipe the contents of the WP.com blog, leaving only a post with a link to your new site. You see those kinds of things all the time. “If you are not redirected to our site in five seconds, please click here” and they know darn well you’re going to have to click.

You will, any way you look at it, take a serious Google and Technorati hit. I dropped three hundred thousand places on Technorati when I got my new domain name.
timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2007 at 1:56 am
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Why not purchase a domain and domain mapping through wordpress for $15? Then wait the required 60 days and redirect to a wordpress.org hosted blog at the web host of your choice. In between exporting and importing contents and links from a wordpress.com blog to a wordpress.org template and setting up plugins is not formidable. It true that it takes time to propagate after the re-direct of the nameservers (up to 72 hours) but after that the traffic goes directly to the domain.
raincoaster · Member · Oct 25, 2007 at 2:16 am
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The traffic for the NEW domain name; but what about people who go to their usual URL in their Favorites: http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/ ?That won’t redirect, will it?
timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2007 at 4:33 am
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My blog gets a fair amount of hits per day and I’d like to put an ad on it to generate money. I know I can’t do this on WP.com, but if I move my blog to a hosted domain …

Sorry, I was not clear. There is no getting around the no redirect.

Advertising is going to be an option on wordpress.com blogs in the future. See the very bottom entry on this page. http://wordpress.com/features/ And you can have a domain that wordpress domain maps for you. If the only reason for wanting a domain is to have advertising then keep in mind the fact that it’s coming soon to wp.com, you won’t make much from it and, as raincoaster points out, you will lose your Google juice for at least 6 months. The move may not be worth it.
scopettg · Member · Oct 25, 2007 at 8:00 am
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Hi Timethief~

I am grad with the prospects we can go commercial on Ads…
Hope the Forum I told you of will come in handy on time.

Hopefully the ad proceedure is easy enough, and private enough.

Scope.

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