Is there anyway to change my sites name?
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I made this blog a few years ago, and at the time I thought it was a nice name but now it just seems like a mouthful. I’d really like to change it from artisticexpression.wordpress to something else… Can I do that? If I buy the $24 per year .me domain, can I change the site’s name? If so, will all the traffic that ‘artisticexpression’ gets be diverted to the new domain?
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Here’s the information provided for domain mapping.
Domain mapping
Domain Mapping » Register a New Domain
Before Upgrading – Important NotesThe 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. 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.
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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Okay… eventually though, I’m going to want to have ads on my site..
You’ve been here for a while. You’re obviously very experienced. Is that something you would recommend for my site? My site gets around 300 views per day, sometimes over 400, or over 500… Would I be likely to benefit from having ads on it or should I not even bother yet…?
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