Comments on: Migrating from WordPress.com to a Hosted Solution

By: stevekhart

stevekhart — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:18:06 +0000

You can check out my post on auto-publishing your tweets as a WP post: http://www.stevekhart.com/2009/06/publish-tweets-as-a-wordpress-blog-post/

As far as importing historical tweets as posts, I’m not sure there is a way to do that.

Anyone have a suggestion?

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By: april

april — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:12:42 +0000

Thanks for the info. I just purchased hosting thru GoDaddy for WordPress. Do you know how to import your twitter updates?

By: Janet @Gourmet Traveller88

Janet @Gourmet Traveller88 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:15:20 +0000

Thanks for the checklist! Very useful!

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:34:08 +0000

thanks steve

By: stevekhart

stevekhart — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:45:29 +0000

Here’s what I recommend…get your new domain and purchase ($15 a year) domain mapping feature of wordpress.com (http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/). Use this for 4-6 months on wordpress.com. WordPress.com will 301 redirect your traffic mapped domain within WP.com.

The 4-6 month period should be enough time for the search engines to recognize you new domain. Ater this period, you should be able to transfer to a hosted WP installation with no impact to your SEO.

Anyone else have suggestions for Ron?

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:34:48 +0000

I have 2 blogs, the older one with a higher page rank is with a a myname.wordpress.com url. I am planning to buy my own domain name. so i guess my question is, since the url address will change, will that mean i am going to loose my current page rank?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:03:58 +0000

Ron, you’re not migrating to wordpress.org, you migrating to the software (wordpress) provided by wordpress.org.

You need a hosting service like Godaddy or BlueHost to host your implementation of the wordpress software.

Is your blog URL something like yourname.wordpress.com or do you have your own domain name? I would highly recommend splurging the $10 a year and get a domain name.

By: ron

ron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:49:32 +0000

I have a .com blog that i want to move to a self host, but what’s really keeping me from doin it is the page rank. My .com blog is actualy getting regular hits from google, if i migrate .com account to a .org account, will it retain it’s page rank?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:26:35 +0000

You are correct ‘Blog Hosts’.

For me, WordPress.com did not provide the level of customization needed to successfully create a blog that is web optimized. Additionally, running multiple blogs off the same hosting solution, brings down the TCO per blog.

Thanks for the comment.