Need for domain mapping

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  ramnikbansal · Member · Dec 15, 2013 at 12:30 pm

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  Hi,
  I purchased a domain name from GoDaddy . I have forwarded it to point to my wordpress.com blog.

  Now what is the need for domain mapping ?
  Is it that my pages/posts URL will get shifted to my domain ?
  Am not able to figure out the advantage of domain mapping ?

  Is it that when someone searches for my website in google, he will see all pages/posts with say http://www.excelmagicpro.com/xxx instead of http://www.excelmagicpro.wordpress.com/xxx ?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 15, 2013 at 11:18 pm

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  Forwarding will send people who enter http://www.excelmagicpro.com to your http://www.excelmagicpro.wordpress.com site. But the URL will display as http://www.excelmagicpro.wordpress.com, not http://www.excelmagicpro.com

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  ramnikbansal · Member · Dec 16, 2013 at 6:58 am

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  That already gets taken care by Masking which again is free from the domain registrar. So if I mask my url then when someone types excelmagicpro.com and gets directed to http://www.excelmagicpro.wordpress.com , the url displayed is http://www.excelmagicpro.com only.
  I still cant understand the benefit of buying domain mapping.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 16, 2013 at 6:47 pm

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  The problem with masking is that every page will show the http://www.excelmagicpro.com URL. That means not only will http://www.excelmagicpro.wordpress.com display http://www.excelmagicpro.com but so will http://excelmagicpro.wordpress.com/faculty/ and http://excelmagicpro.wordpress.com/why-excel-training/ and so on.

  The only URL that will display for any page on your site will be http://www.excelmagicpro.com. That makes it hard to direct a prospective client to a particular part of your site or for a reader to point a friend to a specific post they read on your site.