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Switching from WordPress.com to WordPress.org Question
I originally set up my site to run on [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.com). I realized I had made a mistake within a couple of months and I switched to .org. I setup the paid 301 redirect for a year and after that year passed, I stopped paying the fee and I thought I was all set.
I’m now trying to setup Google Adsense and my application was rejected due to “scraped content.” I then ran my site through a couple of free plagiarism checkers and found that my old [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.com) site was still showing.
After some research, I realized I should have hit the check box in the settings to hide the site… lesson learned.
My questions:
1. I’ve setup the paid 301 redirect again. How long should I run the redirect before I hide the [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.com) site and permanently delete it?
2. Should I go ahead and start deleting some of the posts that were on the [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.com) site or should I just wait till I hide the site all at once?
3. Are there any steps that I might have missed in this process to make sure that my wordpress.org site is viewed as the original content?