Changing URL

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  annpersona · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 4:54 pm

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  Firstly I am not very technically inclined so please bear with me – I’m having trouble adding my purchased URL (with Namespro) to my wordpress site.

  I added in the DNS names listed and changed the primary domain but now when I go to view my site. It says failed to open page “Safari can’t open the page”. I can’t even switch back to my wordpress URL now – when I change the primary address back it still can’t find the site that I was building.

  Please help – I am extremely frustrated.
  Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  stothek · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 5:48 pm

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  Hi there! Is the domain you’re working with the one listed on your post (atpbait.com)?

  If so, it’s opening for me properly. However, when I run it through the WordPress.com domain helper it shows the following warning:

  Invalid Nameservers
  Your domain is set up with the following name servers or their numeric equivalents:

  SLNS1.NAMESPRO.CA
  SLNS2.NAMESPRO.CA
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  In order for your domain name to work at WordPress.com, you should remove the above nameservers and add only the ones listed below.

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  Remove the Namespro.com name servers and you should be good to go. Please keep in mind that it takes some time for the DNS system across the internet to update when you change name servers. Usually, this will resolve within 24 hours, but it can take up to 72 hours in some cases.

  For more info on using and configuring custom names, have a look here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

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  annpersona · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 3:14 pm

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  Thanks so much for your response. I will try this and check back in 72 hours and let you know! Muchly appreciated!

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  annpersona · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 9:48 pm

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  Thank you, thank you, thank you! This worked !

  Do you mind if I ask another question?

  I’m trying to install a plugin – but for some reason the plugin button isn’t on the left hand menu (under the appearance button) like it does for most of the tutorials that I have been watching. Do you know how to fix this?

  Thanks again for your help earlier!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 9:51 pm

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  I’m trying to install a plugin

  Hello there,
  You are viewing tutorials for WordPress.ORG software installs and they do not apply to WordPress.COM hosted blogs like yous.

  There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs for security reasons, and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  Then read these please:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tags

  If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct ecommerce and edit the database. Learn about the differences here. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 9:52 pm

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  Edit: yous was meant to be yours.

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  annpersona · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 9:54 pm

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  Oh I see! Thank you!

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  annpersona · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 9:57 pm

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  Is there anyway on a wordpress.com website to help with optimization? – I’d love to just enter some key words to help people find the site.

  Thanks again!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 9:59 pm

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  This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture. We WordPress.COM bloggers cannot access metadata. But its of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. Search engines are focused on keywords in your content. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/ Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

  The good news is that WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.`

  Read http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

  SEO and Your Blog

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  annpersona · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 10:02 pm

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  Thank you so much for all of this information :)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2015 at 10:03 pm

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  You are welcome.