SE Ranking goes down after registering second domain
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Hi,
since I registered a cool domain name with my wordpress blog, my search engine rankings goes down. I think because of duplicated content. My questions:
What can I do, so that search engines do not believe I have duplicated content here? Is there any way to include the canonical tag somehow into my blog posts?
I would really appreciate you help!
Many thanks in advance!
Robin
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you just bought a custom domain name and mapped it to your WordPress.COM site here – the search drop is normal as search engines get used to the new name and re-index your site – not much you can do but keep on posting – after a while the search engines will index you to your new name and the original WordPress.cOM name will fade – – sorry don’t know how long – but search engines can take a few months to clear their caches of deleted stuff – so I would assume that it will take a few months – – but in the end is should be fine
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Many thanks for the fast reply.
Do you think that this will happen, also if there are both domains active? So I have robinsedlaczek.wordpress.com and robinsedlaczek.com enabled. But I cannot disable or delete the first one that comes with the basic subscription.
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One option you have is to set for .wordpress.com site to private so that search engines are discouraged from visiting it:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
That way they will know to focus on your robinsedlaczek.com site.
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Primary Blog is Set
robinsedlaczek.com is set as the primary domain for robinsedlaczek.wordpress.com and will appear in the address bar when you visit the site.
Since you have domain mapping – you don’t need to do anything – search engines are being 301 redirected (moved permanently) to robinsedlaczek.com – so the old addresses still work (good) – visitor end up on the new name (good) – search engines are in the process of changing the indexing to robinsedlaczek.com (good) – – the old domain robinsedlaczek.wordpress.com – is only sort of active – in that nobody can get to it anymore because of domain mapping – search engines can’t get to the old site – they go to the new site
just keep on blogging – don’t change any settings
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you be welcome & good luck
the shuffle step in the indexing is why we recommend that if you are going to get a custom domain name – you do it early rather than late to start training the search engines early and the right way – sort of like kids & pets I guess
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