domain name change – can't find blog!
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Help! I finally have my blog moved over to wordpress. Yesterday, I was able to see the pages. Today, I moved my existing domain name (changed name servers/IP #s as per WP support page) . Now I can’t find my blog at all. I can log in, get to my dashboard, see that I have 120 posts, but can’t get them or my blog to come up. If I google my website, what used to come up to my old blog now goes to the wordpress.com home page. Can’t find my blog!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Is this your blog? http://denisemalloy.com/
Have your tried logging in using this link http://denisemalloy.com/wp-admin/ -
http://denisemalloy.com/ appears to be working properly.
It can take domain changes up to 72 hours (though usually much less) to propagate to your ISP. Unfortunately, we have no control over this as it all depends on how often your ISP refreshes their DNS cache.
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I am having same trouble too. Is there a phone contact No for Aus please to ring for assistance
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I think I was a bit impatient. . . I believe it just took a bit of time. (obviously my instant response mentality was premature) I now have to figure out do the settings to get the page to come up properly on the search engines. Thanks for the help!! I appreciate you!
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I now have to figure out do the settings to get the page to come up properly on the search engines.
Don’t change anything! Do not under any circummstances start mucking with URLs. You will see the .wordpress.com URLs on your Admin side of the blog. Your visitors will see only the domain URLs. That’s normal.
The reason we purchase domain mapping is so that all the URLs from the .wordpress.com root blog when clicked seamlessly redirect to the same content in the post under the new domain URLs.
The pagerank and authority the blog earned was earned by the .wordpress.com URLs and belongs to them. It’s not transferable. so what that means is the domain starts from zero. In about 4 – 6 months time the content will all be re-indexed by search engines under the domain URLs and all things being equal the blog will probably have the same pagerank and authority it had prior to purchasing domain mapping. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/If you do not renew your domain mapping then all those domain URL’s are broken and the blog reverts to the old .wordpress.com URLs. Then all those broken links are there for months until the search engines like Google index them again under the .wordpress.com URLs and clear their caches (3 – 6 months).
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