Awesome automatic redirect
Thanks again Wealthy Affiliate for making the tough things easier. I am glad to say I bought a new .com domain (thanks for the advice Steve (Ivetriedthat)) and have switched over from my previous domain. Well siterubix and Wealthy Affiliate made the process completely idiot proof. I put in for the migration and the site was moved within 5 minutes (I am sure some might take longer with a lot more posts) and they also have an auto redirect setting. This made all the people who were pointing to my old site go directly to the new site.
I made sure to update my privacy policy to reflect the new changes (and a few other places I had used the old domain name) but besides that change, nothing was required of me. All the links in the site are automatically switched over to the new domain and I am already up and running. It is sad I have to get re-indexed by google, but the first time was within 3 days so I am hopefully going to have similar results.
Now to switch over adsense will be the next challenge, but considering the indexing still needs to take place, I am sure an additional 3 more days won't hurt me too much. I also was able to switch over analytics easily following some of the former guides in the certification classes.
Thanks again WA for a job very well done.
If anyone needs help switching their sites over, please feel free to message me. Since I now have first hand experience with it I feel comfortable walking a few others through the process. I can even go through and check links afterwards!
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Well I did investigate a little further, and I will say while it was easy, some of the photos uploaded onto posts did not transfer right. The links were still pointing to the old site folder, make sure you update all your photo links... I suggest go in each post and do a "control key" "F" to find all the old links and replace them with the new site. The content is there, the links did not get updated.