The easiest way to do this without losing your traffic is to use the WordPress.com Site Redirect. It keeps the yourblog.wordpress.com address active and points traffic to your new yourblog.com domain. You would be essentially paying the registration fee for your old domain at $12.00/year. Periodically through this process you should be informing your readers … Read more
She could install a plugin like DJ Email Publish on her self-hosted blog. This will republish any post she creates to any blog that accepts e-mail posts. This will allow her to write a post using any method she chooses on the self-hosted blog, and it will reappear on her WordPress.com blog.
There is no way at all to remove the uncategorized category from a wordpress.com webblog. It’s not even possible with a self hosted wordpress w/o extensively hack the theme and the core. The uncategorized category is a placeholder for a post not having any category. You can’t even delete that category to not have any … Read more
If you’re going from WP to WP, then you want to use the built-in exporter and importer. Your links should come along with it. I’m not sure about the categories with it, but this might help http://ellejohara.com/blog/making-the-wordpress-opml-tool-slightly-more-useful/
Try something like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/ or another RSS aggregator.
You can do it If you pay for premium features. With this, your blog will get Ad-control option .Later you do need to contact the WordPress team using the contact form on this page Ad control. My advice is to don’t expect to earn much from Adsense unless you have 1000 hits per day and … Read more
Here is what WordPress.com have to say on using your domain with them: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ From there they are clearly saying to use their nameservers. This will because they have a number of IP address and any one of them could be the one hosting your website. Therefore they cannot reliably give you the IP address … Read more
Didn’t try this myself (self-hosted from the start), but this seems fitting guide for your situation: How to Migrate your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain ( Digital Inspiration )
You can’t. GA requires javascript, and wordpress.com doesn’t allow it.
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