Domain mapping side-effects?

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  hkcomplaw · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 1:22 am

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  If I take the domain mapping option offered by WordPress and change my blog url from, for instance, http://www.xyz.wordpress.com to http://www.xyz.com, does anyone know whether the following side-effects will occur:

  1. Existing incoming links to my site will be lost or become inactive

  2. Readers still inputting http://www.xyz.wordpress.com will get an error message (or will they be automatically redirected to http://www.xyz.com?)

  3. I’ll have to go through my blog and correct all the internal hyperlinks to so that references to http://www.xyz.wordpress.com/page1 are converted to http://www.xyz.com/page1

  Thanks for your help

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 1:28 am

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  1 – no

  2 – no, it redirects

  3 – nope

  4, that you didn’t ask about: you will lose your Technorati rank immediately and start at the bottom again.

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  trent · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 1:30 am

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  Just another sidenote as well, the www part of your domain at wordpress.com really isn’t there. For instance, a site would NOT be http://www.matt.wordpress.com but rather:

  http://matt.wordpress.com

  Using the www screws up some browsers and search engines. Just for your info!

  Trent

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  hkcomplaw · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 4:43 am

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  Thanks both. Not as much pain as I imagined sounds relatively smooth. I guess still best to do it sooner than later especially given the technorati issue (not that we’re famous now anyway).

  Peter