The Blogroll / Links has its own process for exporting and importing:

• Access your old blog’s OPML file at yourblogtitle.wordpress.com/wp-links-opml.php
• Copy that URL to your clipboard or save it to your desktop
• Go to Write > Link in the new blog’s dashboard
• Under Related in the right-hand column, click on Import Links
• Copy the OPML URL into the Specify OPML field or upload from your desktop
• Choose a Category in the dropdown menu
• Click Import OPML File

We sometimes display discreet AdSense ads on your blog to help pay the bills. This keeps free features free!

The ad code tries hard not to intrude or show ads to regular readers, which means only a small percentage of your page views will result in a page with ads.

To eliminate ads on your blog for all users, you can purchase the Ad-Free Upgrade.

Note that VIP blogs are able to run their own ads, but other accounts are not. See this page of the FAQ for more information on running ads on your blog.

Your blog is enabled with just about everything you need to be super-searchable. This includes an XML sitemap, which you can access at yourblogname.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml.

No need to do anything extra on your end. The sitemap file included with your blog is available to every search engine that supports the protocol, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, and others.

Why use HTTPS ?
If you sign in to WordPress.com via a non-secure Internet connection, like a public Wi-Fi connection at your local coffee shop, your account may be more vulnerable to hijacking.  To keep the bad guys out, we recommend selecting the “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages“ option from your profile page which will SSL-encrypt your connection while in the WordPress.com dashboard. Save the change by clicking Update Profile. When you log back in, you’ll be rolling with SSL encryption.

Does it slow down WordPress.com ?
With this option turned on, you may find that WordPress.com is more sluggish over the https connection. That’s because nothing that’s transmitted over SSL can be cached, so it takes some extra work to re-download all the information on a page.

To speed things up, click the Turbo button in the upper right corner of your dashboard. This will direct you to install Gears, which will dramatically improve the performance of WordPress.com in https mode.

How do I get those annoying security warnings to go away?

If you’re using Internet Explorer, you may receive warnings as you navigate around your admin with HTTPS enabled. To disable those, follow this process:

1) Go to Tools > Internet Options in your browser menu.
2) Add *.wordpress.com to your list of trusted sites under the Security tab. Make sure to uncheck the box for “Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone.
3) Set Internet Options> Security> Trusted Sites> Custom Level> Miscellaneous> Display Mixed Content to “Enable” (you’ll have to do lots of scrolling to get there).
3) Click OK on all windows.

Security -> Trusted Sites

Add *.wordpress.com to trusted sites

Enabled the display of mixed content

You can change the title of your post – and the resulting web address created from it – any time in the WordPress editor. The following short video shows you how:

Tags are one way you can make it easier for your readers to navigate your content and find what they’re really interested in when they read your blog. The following short screencast talks you through the followig questions:

• What’s a tag?
• How do I add and manage tags?

Categories are one of the ways you can organize your blog content to make it easy for your readers to navigate. In the following short video you’ll learn:

• What’s a category?
• How do I add and manage categories?

WordPress makes it easy to write your post and then have it go live at a (much) later date. It also allows you to change the date and time of your posts – so if you want to tell everyone you’ve been blogging since 1995, you’ll have a half decent alibi.

In the following short screencast you can see how to make use of these features (accessed from the little blue box to the right of the post editor where it says “Publish immediately”):

Linking to other websites and blogs is easy, whether you’re using the Visual or HTML editor. In the following short screencast, we show you how:

Sometimes you want to save your post and come back to it later before publishing it to the web. And there are times when auto-save comes in handy (like when you forget to save something before closing your browser tab). Luckily, WordPress supports both of these features, and you can find out about them in this brief screencast: