New domain name won't work with "www" and help with domain mapping
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Hi I’m new to WordPress and the blogging world so please bear with me because I’m still learning the technical aspects and terminology.
Problem 1: I recently bought a new domain name with godaddy and they helped with forwarding it to wordpress.com blog. The blog is working fine but as soon as I enter “www.sugarnspicebyradhika.com” to any of my social networking pages like facebook and instagram (for promotion of my new domain name) it won’t open, it says invalid address. However, only “sugarnspicebyradhika.com” will open. The problem comes when I enter www to my blog name. What changes do I need to make to make it work?
I cannot go ahead with using only “sugarnspicebyradhika.com” because that way it won’t make a hyperlink (or whatever its called) and is not clickable.Problem 2: Another problem is with “wordpress” appearing in my domain name. I manually copy my post link and enter it to my facebook page in front of a picture of my most recent creation and the links all have my old “sugarnspicebyradhika.wordpress.com” domain. How can I change that ? I want to use wordpress.com without “wordpress” appearing in my blog domain anywhere. I want people to see “www.sugarnspicebyradhika.com” in their address bar even if they enter “www.sugarnspicebyradhika.wordpress.com”. How can I achieve that? Is blog mapping helpful for that, I’ve only bought the domain and forwarded it but didn’t map my new domain with my existing wordpress.com blog.
Please help.
RadhikaThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I cannot go ahead with using only “sugarnspicebyradhika.com” because that way it won’t make a hyperlink (or whatever its called) and is not clickable.
False. Your URL is actually http://sugarnspicebyradhika.com/ and there is no www in it. That is an antiquated convention.
Your domain name is resolving properly for me now.
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Hi Raincoaster. Thank you for replying.
Yes, neither http://sugarnspicebyradhika.com nor http://www.sugarnspicebyradhika was working but I called godaddy people and they did a few setting in my DNS zone file in CName and now its working properly.
However, the second issue is still a problem. I want wordpress to use my new domain for all purposes, I want the links from my blog to say sugarnspicebyradhika.com instead of sugarnspicebyradhika.wordpres.com.For example: I made mother’s day post today and I manually copied the link alongside the picture on my blog’s facebook page. The link looks like this…http://sugarnspicebyradhika.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/mothers-day-breakfast-ideas/
I want to drop wordpress from it. How do I do that?Thanks again for answering my queries.
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The posts take awhile to resolve to the new primary domain. Make sure you set the new domain as primary on the domains page and just wait. It’ll take a day or two for all the links to work properly and go to the new URL.
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Since you are forward and masking your Posts will never have /sugarnspicebyradhika.com/ in the URL – the Post address will ALWAYS be like
and search results will never show /sugarnspicebyradhika.com/ in them by any search engine
You need to domain map the name for the URL to work – forward and mask will always give you problems like you are having – listening to Godaddy is almost never good – turn off forward and mask and map the domain if you want things to work like a regular web site or blog – else you will always have issues and some things will never really work
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
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Hi Auxclass
Thanks for answering.
I read online about domain mapping and what you’re saying is what I gathered too. I think I will hve to map my domain but I’ve herd mapping can compromise design? Is that true?
Another thing, if I map my domain will WordPress change the address of my website from sugarnspicebyradhika.wordpress.com to sugarnspicebyradhika.com everywhere ? Even when I google it? What I want is for people to see my new domain at all times instead of the wordpress one. Domain mapping will help all that without compromising the design? -
Domain mapping has nothing to do with design, the design (look & function) will not change at all
Domain mapping is about as transparent to you as can happen – the address your visitors see will change to /sugarnspicebyradhika.com – all the Posts and such will change automatically for you – also the old address /sugarnspicebyradhika.wordpress.com/ will also work (and will forever)
There will be a bit of a drop in search engine traffic for a few months as search engines get used to the new address –
The blog linked to Raincoaster name as well as my name are domain mapped if you want to see what it looks like
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I’ve herd mapping can compromise design?
HOGWASH!
Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
All About Domains http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/all-about-domains/In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.
See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
See here if you already own a domain you want to map to http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
After you do the primary blog set up it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.
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@auxclass
@raincoaster
Who spreads this misinformation. I’d love to catch them at it so I could fly right up their nose and buzz around in their empty head. -
@sugarnspicebyradhika
Forwarding and masking is a deceptive practice.
Domain mapping is not and it’s the way to go. -
Hi thistimethisspace,
Thank you for answering.
So you’re suggesting me to map my new domain with the existing wordpress one and discontinue with forwarding and masking, right? But the problem is godaddy execs are clueless how to go about it and map it. I’m no pro so its proving difficult for me to map my domain with the existing one on my own. The wordpress articles you’ve mentioned are helpful but I’d be more comfortable if someone was available via chat or phone call to guide me through it. That’s the only thing stopping me from doing it. But I’ll get in touch with someone who knows this stuff and get it done because I’m convinced this is what I want.
Also, totally unrelated, you could fly up godaddy’s executive’s nose that’s been guiding me because I’m pretty certain now there’s nothing up there.
@auxclass I went through your website and raincoaster’s and that is exactly what I want. I tried typing raincoaster.wordpress.com in the address bar and it instantly changed to raincoaster.com. That is what I wanted.
Another related question comes to mind now, if I map my domain and then if in a few months I choose someone else as my host for eg godaddy then what? Then what do I map or not map? Or whoever is the host doesn’t matter since its the domain that’s mapped.
Thank you @auxclass and @thistimethisspace for answering. I’m sorry for so many questions, I’m dense when it comes to computers and I’m still learning. -
If you map your domain and then change hosts, you can just point the domain to your new site. The host doesn’t matter.
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Ask Godaddy to stop the forward and masking and give you a plain registration and setting with nothing extra in it
Then have them change the name servers to those in the instructions below
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
and buy Domain Mapping – then it will take a few hours for the changes t reach the far corners of the internet (and your local ISP) – then your blog will work just like @Raincoasters & mine
Please follow the instructions in the link – the first time through it is a bit of an act of faith
but all you need to do is buy the domain mapping & change the name servers (and remember to set the primary domain to /sugarnspicebyradhika.com/ – it’s covered in the instructions)
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After domain mapping, what will happen to the existing links on my blog’s Facebook page? I share my recipes on my blogs FB page along with the link to the recipe.. After domain mapping will those links become invalid or will they redirect visitors to my page? Thanks!
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I don’t do FacePlant – but all the old links will still work and redirect to the new URL – so you end up with two addresses for each Post etc.
So I would think that your FacePlant followers will not see any difference
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Hi auxclass and timethief, Thanks again but I meant facebook. I’m not sure if “faceplant” is an inside joke! But thanks for your help guys!
@auxclass- You mentioned something about a drop in the traffic? My blog is fairly new, only 4 months old. I don’t have much search engine traffic but this one post I have is listed second when you search “lemon drizzle cake eggless” on google. Will google automatically rectify the old domain or this one will stay where it is and people will be redirected to my new one when they click on it? -
Yes it’s a joke. Facebook is a place that many of us refuse to get an account at.
It will take a few weeks for Google to reindex your posts under the new URLs but the links will all seamlessly redirect. We have no control over that or where Google chooses to position your posts. Note that someone else could publish a post on the same topic that they feel is on a blog with higher authority and higher pagerank and that post could outrank yours in search engine results. In other words, your post does not “own” that position. Where it is placed is fluid.
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FacePlant = Facebook
Best to change names early – @Raincoster knows more about the traffic than I do since I have always had the same name –
when people Google “lemon drizzle cake eggless” – the redirect is seamless – it takes a few weeks for Search engines to change the names from your-name.wordpress.com to your-name.com – – but people will ALWAYS go to the correct Post – – just a shuffle step as search engines get used to the new name – sort of like when someone gets married and they change their name to match their spouse – takes you a bit of time to get used to the new name – but the traffic should not drop to zero – the best way to combat the change is to keep on blogging with new Posts and work your exiting subscriber & FacePlant friends –
getting search engine traffic is the hardest way to get traffic – I speak from personal experience on that – I am not good at social media stuff so if a search engine changes the way they do searches sometime I see large swings – sometimes good once in a while not so good
good luck
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@timethief @auxclass Thanks so much for your help! I feel so much better now..!
Mapping it is! :D
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