Domain Mapping and Redirect

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  cynna7 · Member · Jul 14, 2011 at 3:02 pm

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  Hi, I will be purchasing the domain mapping upgrade as I’ve purchased a domain name for my blog (but want to stay with WordPress.com). But I don’t want to lose the SEO I currently have for my blog. Does the domain mapping upgrade send traffic from Google (or other) searches on older posts to my new domain name?

  Thanks,
  Cindy

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

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 14, 2011 at 4:20 pm

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  Your old links should still work – visitors that get to your site with the old link will see the new URL –

  redirect is only needed if you are moving off WordPress.COM and going to a new URL or address.

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  morteniversen82 · Member · Aug 5, 2011 at 12:56 pm

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  What about the RSS feed? It will still work?

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 5, 2011 at 11:54 pm

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  If the RSS feed at the new host follows the format __/feed (__ being your domain name), it should be fine.

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  morteniversen82 · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 5:33 am

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  Thanks

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 5:40 am

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  I just put in the rss feed string for my site that is domain mapped and the redirect to the mapped site URL feed was automatic. (my-site.wordpress.com/feed turned into my-site.com/feed with no errors and no pain)

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  morteniversen82 · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 5:44 am

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  Thanks, just brought my domain yesterday and will buy domain mapping next week. I’m a bit nervous for my subscribers and google index.

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  morteniversen82 · Member · Aug 21, 2011 at 1:28 pm

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  Last question:

  If I have my own domain and site at wordpress.com and then one day want to host by myself… how much will I then loose (pictures, settings, google-credit, text, categories ect….)?

  Morten

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 21, 2011 at 10:16 pm

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  @morten: If your URL and all of your addresses (for your different posts, pages, etc.) stay the same, there is no impact on your Google ranking.

  More general information about moving to WordPress.org here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org