Idiots guide to domain swapping…
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Hi folks.
I am the idiot – certainly not the person who will be doing the enlightening…that’s hopefully where you good people come in…
So i want to get rid of the .wordpress.com bit – i’ve had a quick look and can buy the address that i want. Here come the daft questions:
1) Will my new website still have the same wordpress functionality – i.e. the same front page as it does now and the same dashboard for me to use?
2) Is there a way to move my archive along from the old to the new website, along with my links etc…?
3) What can i do about the (few) folk who visit my blog – is there anything i can aside from simply putting a post there saying, ‘we’ve moved to …’
4) In the same vein, what can i do for those folk who might have RSS my ‘old’ blog?
5) What about search engines – will they sort themselves out after a little while?
6) What is domain mapping – is the act of swapping the blogs over, for which you pay x per year…?I have had a good trawl and found a lot on this stuff, but kind of feel like i missed the ‘introductory lecture’, so to speak, so the later ones don’t make all that much sense.
Thank for your help.
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This is when you move from a .com blog to a .org blog:
1. Your wordpress.org will have more functionality – themes / plugins / widgets. You will have to recreate how it looks.
2. You can export your posts/pages/comments from Manage > Export
Links can also be exported Uploads are not moved.3. There is no redirection, you need to just use a “Moved” post
4. As above
5. After a few weeks they will get themselves updated. leaving the blog you have here up at the same time probably would not help. Duplicate content they do not like.
Domain Mapping
This is where we make it look like your blog is somewhere else but it’s really still here.
Nothing about how your blog works changes.That help?
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Thanks for that.
So, i’d move from thesinosaudiblog.wordpress.com to thesinosaudiblog.org ? That’s what i pay the $15 per year for?
So – essentially – the new one site is in all respects the same format, dashboard, look, etc aside from the name?
No automatic redirection – i read about that, something about spamming people or something…ok.
That’s great.
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“So, i’d move from thesinosaudiblog.wordpress.com to thesinosaudiblog.org ? That’s what i pay the $15 per year for?”
Maybe not – where is the .org blog going to be hosted?
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One more thing – if i make my page private (so as to avoid the duplication which search engines dont like) when someone clicks on a link to an article in google (which i have since made private), will it just come back ‘no longer exists’ or something like that? or is there a way to make sure that that person gets my link to my new page?
Does this make sense?
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Where is it going to be hosted? – no idea – aside from with wordpress…when i go through the dashboard, upgrades, domain…i can buy my own…i assumed it would be thesinosaudiblog.com but that was just a guess…
So what this .org business. Why does it matter?
Thanks for all this
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I’ll use my blogs as an example:
One.
mark.wordpress.com is hosted here. It works just like every other blog here.
This is free.Two.
I had a mapped domain here – it was bought from wordpress, had no ‘wordpress’ in the url but worked just like every other blog here,
This was $15 for the mapping and the name. This is per year.Three.
My actual domain is hosted at http://asmallorange.com – I installed wordpress there, I pay them every month for that and I have complete control over the plugins, themes, widgets etc. I can install other things like a gallery, another blog etc. There is no support there – if it goes wrong I have to fix it.
This is a minimum of $25 per year.So, if you buy from us and map the blog, that is option Two above.
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Thanks for the remedial classes!
Option one sounds great to me. $15 a year for exactly the same thing, but without the wordpress in the line. That’ll do nicely.
Do you know anything about my other post?
If i make my page private (so as to avoid the duplication which search engines dont like) when someone clicks on a link to an article in google (which i have since made private), will it just come back ‘no longer exists’ or something like that? or is there a way to make sure that that person gets my link to my new page?
Cheers again
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