Subdomain mapping
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I have set up subdomain mapping for my wordpress site, thinking that this would enable me to completely hide the wordpress.com in the URL…
I have just set up the subdomain mapping and at the moment when people type it http://www.blog.[mysite].com it just redirects to http://www.mysite.wordpress.com
I thought subdomain mapping would mean I would get a complete mapping of the site so it would end up with http://www.blog.[mysite].com/%5Bpage%5D/%5Bsub-page%5D
…did I assume wrong, or does it take time to start working?
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Hi. Have you followed all the steps of the support document, including setting the primary domain?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/#instructions-for-mapping-subdomains -
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Yeah, I saw the link. What if I just turn “WWW forwarding” with my domain on to WP servers (so called “A-record”), without paying the upgrade on WP (still have a free wp.com)?
For example, I have http://www.abc.com, and it’s forwarding to my blog, owim1.wordpress.com. Would those why type http://www.abc.com see it’s WP “under the hood”, and WP links?
Thanks! ;)
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Thanks @airodyssesy and @thesacredpath – yes I ‘ve read that page and followed the instructions, and its taken my money and is now showing the url http://mysite.wordpress.com when you type in http://blog.mysite.com. So I guess it is working?
I am just confused as to what it is I’ve paid for, since I could have done this just with www forwarding from my domain.
What I want is to be able to hide the .wordpress.com url completely, so that each page and post would have its own blog.mysite.com/page reference.
Does that make sense? Maybe I have just misunderstood what subdomain mapping is?
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If you did the subdomain mapping and everything is set up right then what you should be seeing in the address bar when you go to your blog is http://blog.mysite.com/ . It can take several hours to as much as 24 or even 72 for the change to propagate through the nameservers on the internet, and how quickly you will see the change is dependent on how often your ISP updates their nameservers.
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@owim1, at wordpress.COM, we cannot have www in our URLs, not even with domain mapping.
If you forward from your existing domain name, all that will do is send all traffic to your blog here if they type your domain name into the address bar. What will appear when then get here in the address bar is http://blogname.wordpress.com/ , not your registered domain name. All forwarding does is just that: it forwards all traffic going to one domain name to another.
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The problem with forwarding is, you are not building up your brand with your own custom domain name. All the search engine ranking and brand that you build up will be with the wordpress.COM URL, which really makes having your own domain name useless. Your custom domain name would never build up any page rank and never show up in search engines because there is NO content on the custom domain name.
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Thanks sacredpath
and when you navigate the site and click on links should you see http://blog.mysite.com/ individualpost etc….?
So I should just wait a couple of days and see if it starts working like this, and if not contact wordpress?
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Yes, that is what you will see. The only things that will not show up with your subdomain URL is images and other documents that you upload to your media library. That is because there has to be a full relative URL for those that relates to the exact location the images and documents are stored here at wordpress.COM.
What is the actual URL you mapped to your blog here?
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The problem with forwarding is, you are not building up your brand with your own custom domain name. All the search engine ranking and brand that you build up will be with the wordpress.COM URL, which really makes having your own domain name useless. Your custom domain name would never build up any page rank and never show up in search engines because there is NO content on the custom domain name.
So, what do you suggest me to do then? Pay for the mapping? Or… switch to wp.ORG? I’m pretty new to WP, my blog is running only 2 months (on nuclear techology, in Serbian language), however I have more than 30.000 hits! ;) Which is good I guess.
I’d like to have a domain like http://www.my_brand.com which would Google rank.
Thanks! ;)
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30k in two months is outstanding.
Do you need the additional freedom of a self-hosted blog such as the ability to advertise or add plugins or themes? The beauty of wordpress.COM is that all the backend stuff is taken care of for you and all you have to do is blog. With a self-hosted blog, in addition to the $10 to $25 per month in hosting, you have to do all installations, all upgrades, all backups and all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong, you have to figure it out and fix it. Having wordpress.COM do all that for you is a big advantage.
It depends on what you need going forward and how much extra work you are willing to put in. If you are getting 30k after only a couple months, and your trend is upward, hen there may be some additional expenses for bandwidth to consider.
At wordpress.COM, you cannot have www in the URL, so your sit would be http://my_brand.com/. The www is sort of passe now a days really and few are using unless it is a very established URL that has had it from the very beginning such as adobe.com or apple.com.
You need to figure out where you are going and whether it makes sense to switch to a self-hosted blog now, or wait until later.
An additional benefit with wordpress.COM, is that you never have to worry about bandwidth usage, and if you wanted to do a little advertising, there is always the ad control option which allows you to have advertising and split the revenue with wordpress.COM.
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