: Website porting. Traffic fall in SEO due to image search I ported a website on wordpress.com to my own server. The site had pretty good traffic and we had done a fair amount of work to ensure

@Angela700

You need to get a 301 redirect command added to the "wordpress.com" web server.

The basic free service doesn't provide this capability.
en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-there-a-301-redirects-manager?replies=2#post-2356582
None of the non-Enterprise subscriptions support adding your own plugin
en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
There are 2 possible methods available if you are willing to spend some/lots of money.

1
They sell a redirect service here store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/redirect/ There is very limited technical details on how it works in practise so I'd email them and ask if it supports your specific circumstance before purchase.

2
Buy an expensive enterprise subscription to permit use of 3rd party plugins
and get a specialist plugin such as the following ...
vip.wordpress.com/plugins/safe-redirect-manager/
Again, be sure to email them first to verify that it will work with images redirects in your specific circumstances.

Another option to consider is to delete your wordpress.com content as soon as practical so that google has no choice but to index and rank your new site. There will be a delay of course, but if your original site content was good enough to rank well and attract traffic, your new site should as well.

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