Question About Mapping a Domain From Weebly
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Hi there,
So, I have purchased my domain from Weebly, and am currently in the process of mapping it to my WordPress blog. Once I do so, will the site (collegecourtreport.com) direct people to my WordPress site, and will it look the same as my current WordPress blog? Hopefully I clarified that okay…any help would be great!
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Hi there. If you followed the instructions in the domain mapping support doc, that’s what should happen, yes. It won’t merely look like your WordPress.com site, it will be that site. What the mapping does is lay your custom domain over your WordPress.com URL, so both URLs will take people to your blog, but only the custom URL will show in their browsers.
Just to be clear, you have to buy the mapping upgrade from your WordPress.com dashboard, and change the name servers for the domain at Weebly. It can take up to 72 hours for your blog to appear at that domain after doing this.
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@collegecourtreport
Once you update your domain’s name servers to point to WordPress.com, the domain will direct visitors to your WordPress.com site, collegecourtreport.wordpress.com:
Use a Domain You Already Own (Domain Mapping)
Also, if you’re just starting out with WordPress.com, I recommend you go through our new user’s guide:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/start/
You’ll learn about all the best and most useful features of WordPress.com, with lots of screenshots and videos.
You can also browse our support documentation and check out the forums; you might find the answer you’re looking for:
If you have additional questions, please let us know :-)
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Perfect, thank you both for all of your help!
One further question, regarding stats:
I have successfully mapped my domain to WordPress, but I have noticed that stats are still going up through Weebly, and on WordPress they are nowhere representative of the views/visitors I was getting when it was on Weebly. Is this something that takes time to change over as well, or is there something that I don’t quite know?Thank you again for the assistance!
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I don’t know how Weebly works, but if you have followers there they wouldn’t have been transferred across to WordPress.com. If you still have an active site on a free Weebly domain, I suggest you publish a post there informing your visitors that your site is now hosted on WordPress.com and they must come subscribe to it here.
You should probably also at some point set your Weebly site to private to prevent Google from penalising you in search results due to duplicate content. The move to WordPress.com might also cause a temporary drop in search ranking, as search engines will need to re-index your content at their new WordPress.com URLs. That could also explain the drop in your stats.
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@collegecourtreport
@kokkieh is correct.
In addition, we have some additional tips on traffic building here:
I also recommend getting involved over at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/ — it’s a staff-written blog with writing and photography challenges, lots of blogging advice, and an active community of WordPress.com users that support each other and read each other’s work.
Let us know if you have any more questions.
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