domain forwarding
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got a domain hosted on goddady and i want it so when people type it it forwards to my blog as right now it goes to nothing, so what do i do ? im really new to this so hope someone can give me a detailed explanation. many thanks
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@claire9971
Yes you pay tens bucks a year for the service of forwarding from your wordpress.com subdomain to your domain. -
claire9971:
what so i need to pay 10 credits a year to have my domain go to my blog ? im confusedcorrect
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I don’t consider it to be a rip off. I consider it to be a great service. My blog is domain mapped to my domain and that domain is hosted by A Small Orange. This works very well for me.
If you are looking for hosting that is prepared to handle wordpress software then you can download the software from http://wordpress.org and you can check out the web hosting services here http://wordpress.org/support/
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I dunno, I use godaddy too, and I don’t host there, and I just forward and mask from Godaddy to here… works fine, no prob!
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And… if you independently host, you’ve added a cost of $120 a year on average. It’s up to each individual.
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/nod to rain
Yes stay away from those hosts that advertise mondo amounts of bandwidth and storage space for $6 per month. Most of the time it is just a lot of hot air. Stick with quality hosting and pay a little extra. Like Timethief I host at A Small Orange, and I’ve been quite happy with them. Very good and prompt technical support if you need it, very little server down time, and they are very reasonably priced. And, if they say you get 3GB of bandwidth per month, that is what you get. Some ISP’s end up cutting you off long before you reach your “supposed” bandwidth limit.
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so once the whole process is done does that mean that both your original url (orginal.wordpress.com) and your own domain (orginal.com) both work or only the paid for domain?
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I’m a newbie here and want to be sure I have this right (might be the same question as demonj). I have a blog at site.wordpress.com and have set up hosting with GoDaddy for site.net. I also just installed the wordpress software there. My plan is to import the information from my wordpress site and then copy it to the hosted site, essentially creating a duplicate site. I also plan to purchase the $10 plan to point the wordpress site to site.net. I’m hoping that means that anyone who goes to site.wordpress.com from that point on will go to site.net. Is this correct? Also, will earlier permalinks to the wordpress site continue to work (and end up at the corresponding posts at site.net)?
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No. What you will do is pay GoDaddy for hosting for a blog with no name, which nobody can see. Right now it is at site.net. If you do the domain mapping, WordPress will take that name and apply it to the WP.com blog, and your duplicate blog will be out there, floating in cyberspace, costing you money, and nobody will be able to get to it.
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Now, if you only bought a NAME from GoDaddy, that’s a totally different situation. That’s all you need to do, actually. Duplicate blogs are severely and I mean severely downgraded by search engines. If you have the name from GoDaddy, all you need is the Domain Mapping upgrade and you’re fine with your WP.com blog.
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I just want to set up my wordpress blog in a way that has my new name and can also run ads. I thought I had to have it hosted elsewhere with the software to run ads. (And I don’t want to lose all the people who visit my wordpress address, that’s why I hoped mapping would work.) Is there a solution for me?
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You will have to be hosted elsewhere to run ads. There is NO solution which will direct the people who come to your WP.com blog to go to your external blog and see your ads.
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ok…what do people do if their wordpress.com blog gets a lot of viewers and they decide to host elsewhere to run some ads? Do they just try to tell everyone the new site? Run a link on the wordpress site saying “We’ve moved” ? I would think this comes up almost anytime someone has a popular wordpress blog. (Again, bare with me as a newbie to this world–I appreciate your help).
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Most people just put a final post on their blogs here with a message about the new domain and a link to it.
There is also this support document that gives a workaround for redirecting with the paid domain mapping upgrade, but I’ve had some people say they were not able to get it to work. Others have though.
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