My question now is do you or a reader know how I go about changing my existing feedburner information? Currently all is status quo because my wp.com is being redirected to the wp.org domain to buy me some time. But I need to change the feed permanently in feedburner and (1) can't find out how to do it on the site and (2) don't want to loose my current readers/subscriptions.

I have been able to find many articles online about making the initial move but none have spoken to this particular after-the-move issue. Looking for assistance please.

Thanks for reading….

I just went to the Plugins link, clicked Add New, and then did a search for “Search and Replace.” 4 different plugins came up with that feature. You might want to try those. I think Peggy was talking about the first one, called simply Search and Replace.

Peg

I wish I had a good answer on this. As I shut down the old blog, I did a post inviting people to subscribe to my new feed. Then a month later, I did another post which listed posts on the new blog, trying to tempt subscribers, and again invited them to add my new feed.
http://scorechicago.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/web-2-0-posts-you-may-have-missed-on-my-new-blogs/

I also created a forwarding link from each old post to the new post location, link by link.

I find this link on Feedburner about redirects, but I don’t believe this actually transfer the old subscribers.
https://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=78464&cbid=-1qhpgzs905fdj&src=cb&lev=answer
As I read this, people coming to the old blog are sent to the new one.

But what we want is for the list of subscribers be transferred to the new blog, or at minimum, posts from the new one to be sent to old subscribers. It occurs to me that Feedburner probably does not facilitate this because bloggers would take subscriber lists from one blog and add them to lots of other blogs that readers did not subscribe to.

Peg

I would love to hear more about the search and replace plug-in please!
Between the two blogs I moved weeks ago I am STILL going though every single one of close to 1000 posts to correct links et al in each one. I have been doing some every evening when I get home from work and this is really tedious . I am open to any and all of the shortcuts that I can get.

Thanks for reading.

My question now is do you or a reader know how I go about changing my existing feedburner information? Currently all is status quo because my wp.com is being redirected to the wp.org domain to buy me some time. But I need to change the feed permanently in feedburner and (1) can’t find out how to do it on the site and (2) don’t want to loose my current readers/subscriptions.

I have been able to find many articles online about making the initial move but none have spoken to this particular after-the-move issue. Looking for assistance please.

Thanks for reading.

An easy way to see if anyone has pilfered your content is to copy and paste your article into google search and see if every word matches up (they will be in bold in the search results).

Google limits search queries to 32 words, so just test different 32-word chunks of your articles.

The most miserable thing I had to go through was changing the links to previous posts. Then I found a search and replace plugin.

Thanks for sharing your concerns and problems with Wordpress.org vs Wordpress.com.

1. I made the move with hosting on Godaddy, and I have nothing but good things to say about their help and support in this process. I too had to install the template several times, correct errors.

2. I don’t know CSS. To make the transition easier, I purchased the well-respected Thesis template for Wordpress.org, with its built in SEO features. Figured this would get me started without going through a zillion plugins, but keep my options open in the future.

3. I just moved a couple weeks ago. I fully expected traffic to drop, as my RSS reader find me and sign up again, as the search engines reindex the blog posts, and as I change as many referral links as I can remember. That said, one of my old posts got tweeted by a pro and I had 643 pageviews on my 4th day. Normal traffic is now one third of what it was on my old blog, but I expect this to increase. As I said, one of the reasons I moved was to take advantage of more SEO and viral capabilities on .org.

Thanks a million for the stats plugin reference. I do owe you.

Peg