Changing domain

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  walking4air · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 11:05 am

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  I would like to change my WordPress blog to my own domain. What I would like to know if people already have my blog URL as walking4air.wordpress.com will they still be able to locate my blog if I had to take out the WordPress part? In other words will my old blog page web address automatically link people to the new web address?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 5:43 pm

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  The answer is “yes”. What domain mapping results in is the seamless transfer of those who click .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs. See:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading

  This may also be helpful
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/04/02/do-i-need-a-domain/

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  walking4air · Member · Mar 25, 2013 at 11:20 am

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  Thank you so much for the reply and for the links to the articles. Very helpful!