How to Deal With Your Blog if You Can’t Redirect It To Your New Site
This is a major concern for many people looking to transfer free blogs from platforms like Blogger and WP to another location. Users have two choices, and the best one for you depends on a number of factors, the most significant being how well you already rank in the search engines.
For example, lets say you have a free blog at thisfreeblog.blogspot.com or thisfreeblog.wordpress.com and you want to 1) point it to thisismynewsite.com and 2) transfer all the content over.
You have two options:
1) You can leave your content on the free blog for the moment and start over fresh on thisismynewsite.com to avoid any duplicate content penalties. Remember that Google penalizes the site whom it identifies as having “taken” the content. Thus, it usually penalizes new blogs over old ones and this is why you don’t want to just do something like import all the text from one blog to another without deleting all the pages, cached and otherwise, for it.
Simply add a post and/or a graphic saying you’ve moved to a new site (you can’t do a 301 redirect on sites whose backend you don’t have access to). This is good for several reasons: one, you don’t confuse your readers and it makes an easier transition, two, you keep the rankings you already have and three, you avoid any duplicate content penalties.
After the new site starts to rank better than the old one, you can import all the information from the old site to the new site and delete the old blog completely.
2) If you don’t have any rankings, its safe to import all the old content into the new blog, then delete the old blog entirely and all its components.
However, this is still hard on readers, so you might just want to delete all the content associated with it and still have a call to action telling them to visit the new blog/site.
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I would apt the option number 2. It is safe and convenient enough