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.
From the TOS: By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the … Read more
You can’t upload plugins on WordPress.com. For security and performance reasons, you can only run what wordpress.com staff has approved.
From one of WP engineers: It’s not possible for you to publish a post and have it publicized under the blog owners credentials. It sounds like you are setup as an author on blog x. If you were setup as a contributor you could write the post but it would have to be published by … Read more
First off, check if the theme is available in wordpress.org themes: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ If it’s not, find the name of the theme developer and contact them. Many developers of wordpress.com themes are happy for people to use their themes on self-hosted WordPress blogs. The developer’s name and contact details can be found by looking at style.css. … Read more