Step by step article on migrating domain for personal blog

[seomozzy]

Greetings!

I have been running my personal blog on first-lastname with a .me extension and I finally managed to acquire first-lastname.com!!!

Now I would like to migrate my Wordpress implementation to the new URL.

It will exactly the same.

Where could I find a detailed step by step on exactly how to do this?

Appreciate your time

Alex

[Matt-Williamson]

Have a look at this Alex - http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

You will then need to create 301 redirects from your old domain to your new one - linking your old pages to the their new locations to pass 90-99% of link juice you have gained previously and helping build your new sites authority.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

[seomozzy]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your support.

I checked both of those resources, they make sense.

I guess what I'm looking for is really a combination of both - a nice, automated way to migrate wordpress installations whilst maintaining all required 301's.  I imagine by now there's a plugin of some sort!

These resources seem to be good:

http://yoast.com/move-wordpress-blog-domain-10-steps/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/

Let me know if those seem to be on the wrong track...

Cheers,

A