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1. samputtergeorge
   Member
   Mar 10, 2013, 5:53 PM

   I know there is a lot of information on this topic already, unfortunatly it is not composed such that a novice can understand. I have a site, lets call it example.wordpress.com. I thought I could purchase something that would make it example.com, but would leave the site the same, and let me transfer existing statistics and traffic.

   Is this a domain change? If so, does executing the domain change reset all of the statistics of the site?

   The blog I need help with is commonwealthverses.wordpress.com.

2. timethief
   Member
   Mar 10, 2013, 5:57 PM

   I thought I could purchase something that would make it example.com, but would leave the site the same, and let me transfer existing statistics and traffic.

   Yes, and that's called domain mapping. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

3. timethief
   Member
   Mar 10, 2013, 5:58 PM

   NOTE: There is no transferring of content at all involved The content is still in the same blog and is still being free hosted by WordPress.com. All that changes is the URL.

4. auxclass
   Member
   Mar 10, 2013, 6:00 PM

   PS

   If so, does executing the domain change reset all of the statistics of the site?

   N0 - since nothing is transferred - no stats are lost

5. samputtergeorge
   Member
   Mar 10, 2013, 7:54 PM

   thanks for the feed back. i went ahead an purchased the url...as you said the statistic remained, but all the Facebook / twitter / google + stats reset to zero...is there no way to transfer that info?

   thanks,

   sam

6. samputtergeorge
   Member
   Mar 10, 2013, 7:55 PM

   does purchasing "site redirect" fix this?

7. raincoaster
   Member
   Mar 10, 2013, 9:48 PM

   No, not at all. You have the old URL AND the new URL. You won't have any FB or G+ stats until somebody shares the new URL to those platforms.

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