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  jeffreyshaw1 · Member · Feb 5, 2014 at 6:06 pm

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  As shown below, wordpress seems to have my url as blogjeffreyshaw. My understanding is that I have a premium account with url blog.jeffreyshaw.com. Even when I click on Upgrade to Premium it says I already have a Premium account. When I type in blogjeffreyshaw.com it points to blog.jeffreyshaw.com. Please explain what’s going on? I’m concerned that all my blog activity is not support the SEO on my primary url at http://www.jeffreyshaw.com

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kardotim · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 11:13 am

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  You can set your primary domain at https://blogjeffreyshaw.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains . The other URL will then redirect to that primary domain address.

  Please let us know if you need any further assistance!

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  jeffreyshaw1 · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 4:37 pm

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  Apparently I have two domains that are pointing to blog.jeffreyshaw.com. Can I migrate that domain name to another host? From an SEO perspective, am I getting the maximum benefit from blog.jeffreyshaw.com even though two other domains are pointing to it?

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  kardotim · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 5:00 pm

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  All (sub-)domains listed at https://blogjeffreyshaw.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains point to the one that’s selected as primary domain.

  From an SEO perspective, am I getting the maximum benefit from blog.jeffreyshaw.com even though two other domains are pointing to it?

  Yes you are. WordPress.com handles SEO optimization for you. You can read the information in this post to learn more about SEO and increase traffic: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

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  jeffreyshaw1 · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 5:05 pm

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  The functionality on WordPress is a little limited. Can the domain, blog.jeffreyshaw.com be moved to another host?

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  kardotim · Member · Feb 7, 2014 at 9:10 am

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  What functionality are you referring to?

  Sure, you can go to the control panel of the registrar where you registered jeffreyshaw.com, which is GoDaddy. There you can change the CNAME record and point it to a different site.

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  jeffreyshaw1 · Member · Feb 7, 2014 at 12:59 pm

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  Am I misunderstanding something? What I asked was I wanted to move blog.jeffreyshaw.com which is hosted by wordpress to another host. Is this possible?

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  kardotim · Member · Feb 7, 2014 at 1:12 pm

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  You have one domain registered at WordPress.com, and one domain registered at GoDaddy which is mapped to your WordPress.com blog.

  The domain registered at WordPress.com is blogjeffreyshaw.com

  The domain registered at GoDaddy is jeffreyshaw.com and a sub-domain of this domain blog.jeffreyshaw.com is mapped to your WordPress.com blog. Which you’ve purchased the domain mapping upgrade for.

  You can see your upgrade listed at https://blogjeffreyshaw.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=my-upgrades

  If you want to point blog.jeffreyshaw.com to a different host, you can go to the control panel of the registrar where you registered jeffreyshaw.com and then change the CNAME record to point it to a different site.