Bought domain mapping and set it up. Now want to change it
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I just bought the domain mapping upgrade and changed the default domain to a new one. However, I now want to change the domain that I set up. Is there a way of doing this without incurring an additional charge? It looks like lots of people have asked about this but there haven’t been any public responses.
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Hi there,
It actually looks like you’ve purchased a domain name (tobywalsh.com) as opposed to domain mapping. Or are you talking about a different account?
Let me know!
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The original URL I was given was tobywalsh.wordpress.com
I then bought tobywalsh.com and built my site… thinking it would just be a blog.
But then I figured that in this day and age, and given the business is just me, I could make my blog my website and this might help SEO etc as there will be lots more content going onto it.
So I now want to change it to twpr.co (my email is (email visible only to moderators and staff)).
(I currently have 1and1 redirecting twpr.co traffic to tobywalsh.com as a temporary solution but am concerned that this will complicate/affect SEO etc – so want my actual domain to be twpr.co – or will tobywalsh.wordpressalways be my URL for Google etc?)
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OK, thanks for the explanation! The issue however is that domains cannot be changed or refunded any time past their first 48 hours after purchase. Since you bought your domain back at the beginning of September, we won’t be able to make any changes to this domain.
The good news is that you can have as many domains as you’d set for your blog. You can just purchase mapping for your site for twpr.co and properly point that domain at your blog via nameservers. You can set twpr.co to be your primary domain so that anyone visiting your site via any of your addresses (whether it be twpr.com, tobywalsh.com, or tobywalshdotcom.wordpress.com) will all end up at twpr.com via redirection.
Let me know if you have any questions!
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Thanks for the reply.
Will mapping to twpr.co affect SEO – i.e. for Google should my site by tobywalsh.com still? I’m just concerned that by making it more complicated than it needs to be it might affect how I’m able to sell my services. My wordpress blog is effectively my website. -
I’m not an SEO expert and I don’t want to give you any advice that might turn out to be wrong (especially since there are entire companies out there that do thing but SEO work all day every day . . . and even they turn out to be wrong sometimes!).
I would recommend that if you have specific questions about what will and will not effect your SEO viability you do some research and perhaps find an SEO-specific forum and pose your question there. Sorry I can’t give you advice on this one!
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