Can redirecting away from WordPress.com with a "Poor Man's Redirect" preserve SEO?

Can redirecting away from WordPress.com with a "Poor Man's Redirect" preserve SEO? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Can redirecting away from WordPress.com with a "Poor Man's Redirect" preserve SEO? error on your web browser. Problem :

My situation is the following: I have a WordPress free blog that I want to migrate to a static HTML site. However, I cannot execute PHP on this WordPress domain*, therefore, the solution proposed here: The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting does not apply (at least, does not apply any longer).

I am considering doing a "poor man's redirect", as describe here: Can you use an external 301 redirect for a blog post hosted on wordpress.com? How bad would it be?

*Strictly speaking, I could pay to execute PHP code on WordPress. But if I want to install my plugin, I will have to change my domain name.

Solution :

No, my solution (the Poor Man’s Redirect) would not preserve SEO. By destroying the content on the WordPress.com site, you remove it’s relevancy to search engines. The content on the external site would become the indexed content and might get a small boost from link juice, but that’s it.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the seo, redirects, wordpress error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!