Adding domain

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    velocitytechnologysolutions · Member ·

    I need to change the domain name of my blog and have tried several options, including purchasing/adding new domain. I don’t seem to be able to do the latter. How do can I go about changing the domain name (http//domain.wordpress.com)?

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hello there,
    Wordpress.com is the top level domain here and all .wordpress.com blogs are on sub-domains. if you wish to register your own domain name and map it to your .wordpress.com blog then here’s the information provided for domain mapping:
    Domain mapping
    Domain Mapping » Register a New Domain
    Before Upgrading – Important Notes

    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. 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.

    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).

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