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I am thinking of buying a domain for a year. If I decide at some point to get back no normal free wordpress adress, does it convert automatically to the wordpress.com adress with all contenct or will I have problems?
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Yes, as soon as you remove the domain mapping it will revert. I think when it expires you have to go into domains and set the domain.wordpress.comm version back to the primary domain manually – but that might be automatic (I have never had a domain expire). You can switch back manually at any time.
Incidentally when you have domain mapping the old addresses are mapped to your new domain, for example you can use http://westernhindu.wordpress.com as well as http://western-hindu.org/ to get to my site
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the Google Page Rank and Technorati authority and rank belong to the
root blog ie. the original wordpress.com or blogspot sub-domain url for
the blog.
If you purchase a domain name and move the blog to another URL all
the links will be broken unless you also purchase domain mapping so
readers are seamlessly transferred between the URLs.
The PageRank on the new blog on your domain will drop to 0/10. That
can’t be avoided, however, in about 4 – 6 months time, all thingsconsidered you may be able to restore it.
My response is that the most important aspect of domain mapping and/or reversion has to do withthe reason we purchase it in the first place. When we domain map we are paying so that when visitors click on the URLs to the root blog wordpress.com site they are seamlessly redirected to the appropriate domain URL.If we do not purchase domain mapping or if we revert the blog by not renewing domain mapping upgrades then all of those URLs will be broken. Any visitor who clicks them will experience a “404” page not found. So purchasing domain mapping for a single year does not make any sense to me at all.
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