Comments on: Moving a Free WordPress Hosted Blog to its Own Domain

By: VIKAS GUPTA

VIKAS GUPTA — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:24:27 +0000

The domain mapping is valid even if you are self-hosted. May be it was not so when you wrote this post.

By: Chris Sandberg

Chris Sandberg — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:07:01 +0000

@MsTrisBeats
If you want to redirect your blog you will have to first still technically host it with wordpress.com and use their Domain mapping service to redirect to your new domain first. Once all the traffic from search engines is going directly to the new domain (not just going to the old domain and being redirected) you can just up a new blog on the new domain and import all the content so that it is an exact replica of what was hosted on wordpress.com

By: MsTrisBeats

MsTrisBeats — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:49:05 +0000

Thanks this helped a lot this morning… I am in the middle of doing exactly whats described..I haven’t redirected yet and I was wondering how…right now its split between my hosted and free blog..free blog has about 1000 visits with no advertising. I thought i’d just be able to swap em and keep the traffic…this post gives me better direction on how to transfer….

By: Leo Borj

Leo Borj — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:46:42 +0000

Chris,

Thanks a lot for the nice and accurate explanations of the process and answers given to my concerns when moving from a free wordpress.com blog hosting to a self owned domain one.

Leo.

By: Chris Sandberg

Chris Sandberg — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:24:04 +0000

@Richard

Yes, there is an export feature on WordPress hosted blogs and an import feature on independently hosted WordPress blogs. Exporting your content from a blog on WordPress.com then importing it all to a blog on your own domain is what was implied in step 4 when I said “Move the Blog to its Own Hosting Independent of WordPress.com”, however, I understand I wasn’t too detailed in how to actually do that.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:41:14 +0000

Nice article, but need more information. I am pretty technical already, but was wondering, can you export your free blog on WordPress to a unique domain. ie without losing your history, or is that not possible?? The moving I can handle, but can I get my old wordpress info out, or will it forever remain on the free wordpress site? It there an export method?

Thanks in advance for any info, or help.

By: jameswillisisthebest

jameswillisisthebest — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:42:58 +0000

This is my first post
just saying HI

By: Chris Sandberg

Chris Sandberg — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:25:20 +0000

@Indratno

Yeah, you are right. If you just purchase a new domain and hosting and then move all your posts over you will lose all the search engine traffic you were getting to your old blog. It is like starting you blog over again. If you already have some search traffic coming to your blog, it is worth the effort to try to keep as much of that traffic as possible by applying some of the tips I mentioned in the post.

By: Indratno Widiarto

Indratno Widiarto — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:10:22 +0000

Dear Chris,

Your post is indeed valuable since most people think that migration is just a matter of purchasing a domain name and hosting account and then move all the posts to their new home.

I wonder if you could also share us the smooth way (talking about traffic) to migrate from blogger.com to paid hosting without loosing traffic from search engines.

Many thanks & regards.

Indratno Widiarto

By: Chris Sandberg

Chris Sandberg — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:15:46 +0000

@ Mark@ApplyForCreditCards
I agree, I have actually been thinking of writing a post of plugins I use already. Such a post would go along well as an update of this switch.

@MarkBlogger
Thanks for the encouraging words. I have actually already had my own domain and hosting for quite some time now. This plan to switch to a unique domain is actually for a friend of mine. Great advice though, and thanks for subscribing.