I have been writing articles on the wordpress.com blog, now I am looking to move it to self-hosted WordPress blog but I wonder:
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Should I move all my articles on the new blog or just put an article on my last blog that more articles will be posted on my new blog?
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If i move all articles on my new blog, I am not sure about how google will react to it because there are articles with good number of visitors, won’t this be seo-un-friendly because I am not sure but Google will re-create page reputation stuff, etc or those articles will have same popularity even if I move elsewhere?
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What are the implications and side-effects in moving from wordpress.com blog to self-hosted WordPress blog?
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I’d say take them all with you. That way, you’ll have a rich archive from the start, plus all your articles have the same link structure and are on the same domain.
You will most likely take a hit in SEO if you switch off your old blog, and re-create all content on the new one. For a personal blog, it might be not that much of a big deal, though. I would definitely not maintain the same content on both blogs, because Google might interpret that as duplicate content. If the hosted WordPress blog allows it, maybe install a redirect to the new blog.
If you can set up the hosted WordPress to deliver a header redirect to the exact article on your new blog, it may even work without losing much in Google’s ranking.