If I register a domain, will traffic to my old url be redirected to the new one?

• 

  animalactionist · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 2:26 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Hi,

  I’m interested in registering the domain animalactionist.com but I just got a heap of business cards printed that have the existing animalactionist.wordpress.com address on it. So my question is, if I register the new domain, will the old address still work for my site visitors?

  Thanks for your help.

  Maree
  Blog url: http://animalactionist.wordpress.com/

• 

  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 6, 2011 at 5:12 am

  • Copy link

  Technically, they’ll actually be the same blog, but animalactionist.com will appear in place of animalactionist.wordpress.com.

  Think of animalactionist.com as a fancy new coat for animalactionist.wordpress.com.

• 

  animalactionist · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 10:38 am

  • Copy link

  Thanks Macmanx, so just to be clear (excuse my apparent inability to grasp this fully), if someone enters http://www.animalactionist.wordpress.com – they will still go to my blog, even though the new address is http://www.animalactionist.com? So both URL’s will point to the same website?

  Thank you so much for helping me with this, and sincere apologies if this is a silly question.

  :D

• 

  animalactionist · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 11:47 am

  • Copy link

  ok I went ahead and registered animalactionist.com and all looks good except… it only links to my site if you enter http://animalactionist.com or animalactionist.com – however if you enter http://www.animalactionist.com it does not work. Is that normal? I actually wanted the www. address. :(

• 

  designsimply · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 1:20 pm

  • Copy link

  Yes, when you setup WordPress.com domain mapping, both animalactionist.com and animalactionist.wordpress.com would point to the same website.

  The www version of the domain should redirect to the non-www version. Here at WordPress.com, we don’t use www in any URLs.

  To make animalactionist.com the primary domain, you can update the settings on the Store → Domains page inside your blog dashboard.