Domain Mapping replaces original URL?

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  splicehere · Member · Dec 31, 2009 at 5:16 pm

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  I’m thinking about adding domain mapping to my wordpress.com account. The problem is that my current address, the one that ends in wordpress.com, has been around a long time, gets good results at Google and is well known to a lot of people. Will that be preserved? If my current name is splicehere.wordpress.com and I add somethingelse.com, what happens when somebody goes to splicehere.wordpress.com? Does it continue to work?

  Thanks very much to anybody who can help.

  Steve

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  husdal · Member · Dec 31, 2009 at 5:53 pm

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  Yes, it will continue to work. Anyone typing in your wordpress.com URL will be redirected to your domain URL. The website will look exactly the same, only the URL has changed.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 31, 2009 at 7:30 pm

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  @splicehere
  husdul is right. I just recently purchased another domain and domain mapping for it and my readers are being seamlessly transferred just as they were on the furst blog I did this with. :) Despite this, it’s a still a good idea to make your readers aware of the change in url and to ask everyone you know who has linked to your blog to change the url though.

  @husdal
  Happy New Year!

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  splicehere · Member · Jan 2, 2010 at 3:13 am

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  Great. Thanks folks. That’s very helpful.

  And I assume it will stay this way? Will the old URL be turned off at some point?

  Thanks again — Happy New Year.

  Steve

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 2, 2010 at 9:06 am

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  The old URL will always work.

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  splicehere · Member · Jan 2, 2010 at 5:51 pm

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  Great. Thanks again.

  Steve