domain mapping: what will happen to non-wordpress subdomains?

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  blueberrycheesecake · Member · Dec 11, 2007 at 2:18 am

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  about domain mapping, what if my domain consists of a blog (for the mydomain.com, that i’m
  planning to migrate from an existing wordpress.com blog) and a coppermine gallery (for the
  mydomain.com/gallery), will that jeopardize anything?

  excuse me for this newbie question, what will happen, will i be blogging on my wordpress.com blog or on my domain? (‘coz the domain was so that i can do paid blogging. and adv widgets can not be done on my wordpress.com blog)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 11, 2007 at 2:25 am

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  If you do domain mapping, then your blog will still be hosted here on wordpress.com with all the restrictions. If you are going to have a web host and a domain name, my suggestion would be to do your own install of the software from http://wordpress.org. That way things are wide open for you as far as advertising and such.

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  blueberrycheesecake · Member · Dec 11, 2007 at 2:33 am

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  thanks. i was hoping to automatically redirect my readers to the new domain.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 11, 2007 at 2:43 am

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  What you can do is leave your wordpress.com blog active and put a last post on it directing your visitors to your new URL. You will lose Google and Technorati juice, but it will come back. It seems the higher the volume of visitors you have, the longer it takes. Also set your blog here to not be searched by search engines so that they won’t find duplicates.

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  blueberrycheesecake · Member · Dec 11, 2007 at 2:48 am

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  i see, thanks again. i’m closing this as resolved.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 11, 2007 at 2:53 am

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  You’re very welcome, and happy blogging.