Help! SERP Links to Wordpress site, will they work after I move host

Wordpress, blog, links

[steaprok]

I have managed to get my blog, which is still on wordpress.example.com, and will be moved to a example.com domain.

Will the links from the SERPS results for great keywords like
"seo example city" be lost?

I really need help with this, don't want to mess it up! Its giving me good traffic.

Thanks

[edited by: martinibuster at 2:53 am (utc) on April 27, 2007]
[edit reason] Removed specific search phrase. [/edit]

[caveman]

Since you will be changing URI's, you'll need to 301 redirect the old ones to the new ones.

Alternatively, you could leave the old posts where they are and just start the new ones at the new location. But personally, I'd 301 the lot to the new location.

[steaprok]

thanks caveman, can i 301 a page, like example.wordpress.com, to my new one example.com.?

and if so, any good info on it you could recomend

thanks

[caveman]

If you can keep the same file structure and are just chaning the domain, it's pretty simple. I've used this before on Apache servers:

RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1
RedirectMatch permanent ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1

That redirects all pages from the old domain to the new one.

Just as a caution: For some time now, if you are talking a lot of your site's total pages, you might take a substantial hit in the SERP's for a good long while.

<added>U may wanna head over to our Apache forum [webmasterworld.com] for confirmation. This has worked for me, but I'm no expert in this sort of stuff.</added>

[steaprok]

Thx much appreciated