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1. zenandtheartofborderlinemaintenance
   Member
   Mar 2, 2012, 9:30 PM

   I keep seeing ADD DOMAIN AND MAPPING for $17 a year. What I can't figure out is if my page will still look the same if I do this. Will all the contents of my blog automatically switch to the domain and also would I need to redirect traffic to the .com site?

   In other words, I would love the domain, but if it means starting over and redirecting traffic, I don't want to do it. I may want to move to a self-hosted blog in a year or so, but not now. I just want to reserve the name.

   Will everything appear the same if I buy the domain name?

   The blog I need help with is zenandtheartofborderlinemaintenance.wordpress.com.

2. timethief
   Member
   Mar 2, 2012, 9:37 PM

   There is no "reserve a domain" upgrade. You either purchase a domain mapping upgrade or you don't. Nothing changes except the URLs on the visitor's side of the blog.
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/#important-notes-before-upgrading
   http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/#before-upgrading-important-notes
   http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

   The reason we purchase domain mapping is so that all the URLs from the .wordpress.com root blog when clicked seamlessly redirect to the same content in the post under the new domain URLs.

   The pagerank and authority the blog earned was earned by the .wordpress.com URLs and belongs to them. It’s not transferable. so what that means is the domain starts from zero. In about 4 – 6 months time the content will all be re-indexed by search engines under the domain URLs and all things being equal the blog will probably have the same pagerank and authority it had prior to purchasing domain mapping. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

   It's important to understand the commitment inloved as iIf you do not renew your domain mapping then all those domain URL’s are broken and the blog reverts to the old .wordpress.com URLs. Then all those broken links are there on the interent and in search engine page results for months ,until the search engines like Google index them again under the .wordpress.com URLs and clear their caches (3 – 6 months).

   If you’ve registered your domain through WordPress.com and later want it to point to a blog or website hosted elsewhere then you can do this by updating the nameservers. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/#update-nameservers

3. zenandtheartofborderlinemaintenance
   Member
   Mar 2, 2012, 9:51 PM

   THANK YOU for such a thorough response! I understand. :-)

4. timethief
   Member
   Mar 2, 2012, 10:01 PM

   You're welcome. :)

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