Set up new account and map an existing domain
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Have a domain and already linked it to WordPress but now am not able to find that url online. Paid for a premium account. Want to use ourrevolutionmn.com as our WordPress url — this was purchased through godaddy and we already have emails addresses for this domain
Currently see our site as ourrevolutionmndotcom.wordpress.com
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
I can see the mapping upgrade in your account, but it looks like you still need to complete a step before it will work.
Please log into your account at GoDaddy and change the domain’s name servers to:
NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
You can find GoDaddy’s instructions to do this here:
If you set up email with GoDaddy, please be aware that after you change the name servers that will stop working. To prevent this, you need to add the DNS records you have set up with GoDaddy to your domain here before you change the name servers. You can find instructions to do that here if you have GoDaddy-hosted email:
Add Email through GoDaddy email hosting
Or here if you bought Office 365 email from GoDaddy:
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I found out the first issue, which is that I had initially set up my site under the wrong WordPress account since I automatically logged in under my personal account rather than the new one I wanted to set up. I deleted the site from my personal account, went to GoDaddy and updated the DNS with the server names listed a wordpress and also linked the domain name ourrevoltionmn.com to the new wordpress account. Everything shows as successful, but the site is still not available when i type in the url or google search it. Any other suggestions?
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I found out the first issue, which is that I had initially set up my site under the wrong WordPress account since I automatically logged in under my personal account rather than the new one I wanted to set up. I deleted the site from my personal account, went to GoDaddy and updated the DNS with the server names listed a wordpress and also linked the domain name ourrevoltionmn.com to the new wordpress account. Everything shows as successful, but the site is still not available when i type in the url or google search it. Any other suggestions?
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The site not showing when you type the URL could be a browser problem. Please clear the browser’s cache and cookies, then the site should load.
If it doesn’t, then it means the name servers are still updating. Usually this process only takes a few hours but can take up to 72 hours in extreme cases. I can already see your site at that domain, though, so they are updating correctly.
As for Google search, that takes a bit longer. A site will only appear in search results once a search engine has indexed it, and that takes anything from 6 to 12 weeks for brand new sites. The only real way to speed it up is to publish new content regularly, as that will cause search engines to crawl the site more often, meaning it gets indexed a little faster. But ultimately this process is in the hands of the search engines.
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Thanks for all the help & the links. It’s up! Now I just have to do the content part. Hopefully the tech struggles are behind me for a while
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