Moving to another plateform – what about custom domain ?

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    mayleeb · Member ·

    Hi ! I’m sorry I tried to find an answer evrywhere for my question but either its not the right thing either its too techy and it seems I don’t understand so here is my problem :

    Unfortunately i’m moving over to blogger. But i bought a custom domain name a few months ago on wordpress.com as my website was mayleeb.com
    When I moved to blogger i followed a procedure and edited the DNS etc to be able to use this domain name on blogger.

    1 – When i type mayleeb.com in the google search bar it links back to my wordpress.com site but if i had “www” then it goes to my blogger site – how can I fix this ? Have i done something wrong ?

    2 Am I able to delete my site for it to stop being referenced so well on google and allow my blogger site not to be labeled as copy by google ? I have already exported articles.

    3 If i do delete my site will i still have access to my wordpress.com account ? Because I don’t know how to manage and access my custom domain otherwise

    4 When i log in wordpress into ‘my domains’ and go into my custom domain under ‘transfer domain’ it says “current transfer pending ” i clikced twice on allow but nothing hapens and I haven’t received an email or anything… what does that mean ?

    I’m sorry for the long post, i’m a bit confused. I would like the wordpress.com site gone and be able to keep my custom domain for my new blogger with and without the “www” before hand !

    Thanks for the help and sorry for english mistakes, I’m french :)

    Good evening

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    timethief · Member ·

    1 – When i type mayleeb.com in the google search bar it links back to my wordpress.com site but if i had “www” then it goes to my blogger site – how can I fix this ? Have i done something wrong ?

    One cannot and does not fix what is not broken. The www is stripped out and will always redirect to the same content under the same URL without the www.

    www is an old protocol from back when everything was under separate server hardware. www (www.example.com) was the web server, mail (mail.example.com) was the mail server, ftp (ftp.example.com) was the FTP server, print (print.example.com) was the print server, etc.

    These days, everything is run under the web server, making www. redundant and a waste of four characters.

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    timethief · Member ·

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    mayleeb · Member ·

    Ok so does that mean that it will just eventually go back to being just mayleeb.com and that comes from the fact the wordpress.com site is still open (under private) ?

    Thank you for answering so quickly. I’ve subscribed to the thread, hoping to hear some news !

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    timethief · Member ·

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi there,

    To point your root domain mayleeb.com to your Blogger site (and not just the http://www.mayleeb.com subdomain), you need to add the 4 A records in the optional steps #8-9 in Google instructions here:

    https://support.google.com/blogger/troubleshooter/1233381

    Otherwise, the root domain mayleeb.com keeps pointing to WordPress.com instead of pointing to Blogger.

    I went ahead and made that change for you, so your domain is fully pointed to Blogger now. (It may take up to 72 hours for that change to take effect everywhere, so you might still see your WordPress.com site when you visit the domain.)

    Please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that!

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    mayleeb · Member ·

    You are an angel ! Thanks so much ! It works already
    THANK you!
    Should i delete my previous(wordpress) blog now ? Or keeping it offline is fine enough ? Its in private. I wouldn’t want google to think my new blogger is a copycat :-)
    Thanks again !

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    You’re welcome! :)

    Since your WordPress.com blog is private, you don’t need to worry about it. (Google will eventually stop listing it completely since the contents aren’t visible to visitors or search engines anymore.)

    Please let me know if you have any other questions!

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