I'm thinking about domain mapping

  • motre · Member ·

    I’m thinking of doing domain mapping for my blog. But I thought that if I did that, someone visiting the <blogname>.wordpress.com URL would either see the blog directly, or be redirected to the mapped domain. Over in thread “Summary of posts on the front page – no longer working” I saw a post by blgoss. I first clicked on the username which was hyperlinked to http://blgoss.wordpress.com/ and I tried that one first, instead of http://blgoss.com/ as given in her post. Well, the blgoss.wordpress.com just says “blgoss.wordpress.com is no longer available.”

    Is that a user option to have it do that? Is it possible to make mapping also take visitors to the “old” name in the wordpress.com domain to the mapped name in the user’s domain (as in HTTP redirect, or at least a big hyperlink)?

  • timethief · Member ·

    Is it possible to make mapping also take visitors to the “old” name in the wordpress.com domain to the mapped name in the user’s domain (as in HTTP redirect, or at least a big hyperlink)?

    Yes. That’s how domain mapping operates and what it’s for. 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.

    This is the link to my personal blog http://thistimethisspace.com
    The equivalent .wordpress.com subdomain URL is http://thistimethisspace.wordpress.com
    That blog has been deleted  and the domain is being mapped from my content here http://onekoolblog.wordpress.com

    When mapping a domain to
    free hosted WordPress.com blog there must be an underlying
    .wordpress.com blog URL to map from. But it
    does not matter what the underlying .wordpress.com blog URL is at all. No matter which URL is clicked the vistor will be seamlessly directed the domain URL and locate the content.

     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/

    If 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 for months until the search engines like Google index them again under the .wordpress.com URLs and clear their caches (3 – 6 months).

    Note: Domain mapping is not an instaneous process. It
    can take up to 72 hours for the domain name propagation to take place
    but rarely does. What essential is following all the step very carefully
    > Instructions For Registering a New Domain For Your Blog to activate and Update Primary Domain.
    Therefater you must be patient and wait for the propagation to take
    place as we have no control over when your ISP will flush their DNS
    cache.
    Do not start changing any URLs. When the process is completed what
    you see on the Admin side of the blog will be the old
    .wordpress.com URLs. What you visitors will
    see is the new domain URLs. That’s normal. Until the progapagtion
    is complete you will see switching back and forth between the two.

  • motre · Member ·

    That’s a little confusing … and scary … when I look at http://thistimethisspace.wordpress.com/ and see that it says “The authors have deleted this blog”. But I don’t think your case illustrates what I want (or don’t want).

    Did you have to delete thistimethisspace.wordpress.com to do what you did? Or was that just a side choice to do instead of leaving a dormant blog lying around after you made the choice to map http://onekoolblog.wordpress.com/ to http://thistimethisspace.com/ ? It seems to me you would have wanted to map it differently.

  • auxclass · Member ·

    Don’t delete anything – no need to – domain mapping just replaces your old URL at WordPress.COM with a domain name that you register – both URL’s work

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