Most of people join wordpress.com for occasional blogger and later they become addicted to blogging and get audience and want to explore more for their blog and want more personalization in their blog . If you are one of them and wants to monetize your blog by placing google adsense and want to add more widgets and want your blog on your own domain then you should move your blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org .
first of all you need to take a backup of your blog . Just go to your dashboard , Click tools , Export , Choose free option , and your blog would download in an XML file format . ( Download may take a little time so dont repeat clicks on Export ) .
Now you need to follow these steps :
Step 1: Buy domain and hosting
To move your blog to own domain and hosting , first you need to buy your own domain and website hosting , you can buy unlimited bandhwidth if you want but if your blog fetch 400-500 visitors daily then 20 GB/month would be sufficient for you . You can buy webhosting from any company , i prefer godaddy .
Step 2: Transfer from wordpress.com to wordpress.org
First download wordpress software from wordpress site and go to your web hosting control panel , most companies provide one easy click installation so there should not be problem . Here are some instruction how you could do it
Now login your blog by going your login page which would be your domain/wp-admin
Go to dashboard then click on tools and import .
Select that file which you exported from your old wordpress.com blog .
Step 3: Redirect your visitors to your new blog
Your new blog which you have on wordpress.org is a clone of your blog , your visitors wont come directly there , you need to redirect your existing wordpress to new domain . For that you need to purchase redirect upgrade from wordpress which is just 10-13$ i guess . i recommend you redirect your blog for atleast 2 years .
Happy Blogging
Now you need to follow these steps :
Step 1: Buy domain and hosting
To move your blog to own domain and hosting , first you need to buy your own domain and website hosting , you can buy unlimited bandhwidth if you want but if your blog fetch 400-500 visitors daily then 20 GB/month would be sufficient for you . You can buy webhosting from any company , i prefer godaddy .
Step 2: Transfer from wordpress.com to wordpress.org
First download wordpress software from wordpress site and go to your web hosting control panel , most companies provide one easy click installation so there should not be problem . Here are some instruction how you could do it
Now login your blog by going your login page which would be your domain/wp-admin
Go to dashboard then click on tools and import .
Select that file which you exported from your old wordpress.com blog .
Step 3: Redirect your visitors to your new blog
Your new blog which you have on wordpress.org is a clone of your blog , your visitors wont come directly there , you need to redirect your existing wordpress to new domain . For that you need to purchase redirect upgrade from wordpress which is just 10-13$ i guess . i recommend you redirect your blog for atleast 2 years .
Happy Blogging
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