Title: Seamless switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Seamless switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

 *  [anderstornvig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anderstornvig/)
 * (@anderstornvig)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seamless-switch-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/)
 * Unable to find clear answers to my question selsewhere on the forum I decided
   to take the effort of asking them myself.
 * In short, I’m tired of the restrictions in WordPress.com where I currently [have a blog](http://www.anderstornvig.dk/).
   So I want to switch and WordPress.org seems like a good alternative because I
   already have my own host server.
 * Now, on my WordPress.com blog I’ve always used my own domain [http://www.anderstornvig.dk](http://www.anderstornvig.dk/)
   and my questions are:
    - Assuming that I keep the exact same link/permalink/friendly-url structure 
      on my new WordPress.org blog as WordPress.com uses now, and export/import 
      the content, etc., do I have to remove my WordPress.com blog to keep Google
      from registering duplicate content between the two blogs?
    - And can I safely do this and still keep external links to my blog from other
      blogs intact?
    - Does WordPress.org by default make identical links to the ones WordPress.com
      uses?
    - Finally, will any of these changes affect my PageRank, SERP rank, etc. when
      I’m going to use the same domain?
 * As you may have seen, I aim to do a completely seamless switch from WordPress.
   com to WordPress.org, both from Google’s point of view, other bloggers’ and my
   own, and any advice on this in general is also appreciated.
 * Thank you.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [anderstornvig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anderstornvig/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seamless-switch-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/)
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