Master my own domain – will old links work?
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My dashboard invites me to be the master of my own domain – “make this blog guthan.me for just $24 per year.” (Currently it’s guthan.wordpress.com.) I’m thinking about it, but I have loads of links to pages and posts on my blog scattered across the Internet. If I change my domain name to guthan.me will those links still work?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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/
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Thank you for such a clear explanation and very helpful link! I wonder what happens if you purchase the new domain and then let it lapse for whatever reason. Does the blog automatically revert to the old .wordpress.com URL? Or is it lost for ever?
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Things revert back to the old blog and address – no content is lost but those that got to your site with the mapped domain now have to look for you again – your subscribers should continue to receive email notification of new posts
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@gordonwellsuist
You’re welcome. auxclass has provided your answer. 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.It never ceases to amaze me that people allow their domains to expire. Doing that simply means a domain name squatter will buy it and then try and charge you the moon to get it back. I always renew at least 1 – 2 months before the renewal date.
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Well, many thanks to both auxclass and timethief. You’ve been a great help. I should use forums more often ;-).
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