Need for domain mapping
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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 ?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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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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. -
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.
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