Domain Transfer – Afterwards?

  • Unknown's avatar
    tenerifesex · Member ·

    When you transfer a wp.com blog to another domain using domain mapping:

    Does the old blog effectively die with no more googlebot activity?
    If not what do I need to do to shut it down? (Don’t want duplicate content issues).
    Will the incoming links transfer, in the long term do I need to modifiy them to point to the new domain?

    Any help on this would be appreciated.

  • Unknown's avatar
    husdal · Member ·

    1.
    If not already done so, register your old wordpress.com blog for Google Webmaster Tools

    2.
    In your old wordpress.com blog
    Settings > Privacy
    make sure it’s not crawled by search engines

    3.
    Using Google Webmaster Tools, ask for a removal of your old wordpress.com blog from Google’s index

    (that said, just #2 will do it, but adding #3 will make it faster)

    Incoming links should automatically redirect, no need to do anything…besides paying WP for domain mapping every year.

  • Unknown's avatar
    tenerifesex · Member ·

    Thank you so much, your advice is truly appreciated

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