Comments on: How to redirect wordpress.com blog to self hosted domain

By: Wimberley Homes For Sale

Wimberley Homes For Sale — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:48:40 +0000

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By: Matt Vilson

Matt Vilson — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:12:51 +0000

Hello frd .I have completed all the step but did not redirect my blog.

Have a new technique ?

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Quora — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:14:21 +0000

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By: Eswar

Eswar — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:10:06 +0000

When ever i enter eskonr.com ,i can see the content from old blog(eskonr.wordpress.com) but if i do eskonr.com/wp-admin ,it is taking me to eskonr.wordpress.com/wp-admin ?
Why is it so happening ? since i need to add some plungins to my website(eskonr.com) which is not possible in wordpress blog .Response is highly appreciated.

By: Eswar

Eswar — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:18:41 +0000

Hi,
thank you for the site.I have my old blog eskonr.wordpress.com with content and created my site eskonr.com. I have done all the steps above to redirect to eskonr.com but the site doesnt seems to work (eskonr.com).
How many days will take to make it work ?
Your respnse is highlt appreciated really.

By: brendan

brendan — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:43:02 +0000

Hello,

I have completed all these steps. I am aware that it may take time to switch finally but at the moment I cannot access either url. Is this normal?

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Art Studio Furniture — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:09:56 +0000

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By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:43:30 +0000

Upto my understanding domain mapping is best available solution for longer terms.
We just need to drive the traffic for starting years only to sustain a new domain. After a year only all the old readers and community will automatically shift onto our main domain.

You can’t hardcode 301 for wordpress.com but you can use google webmaster central for customizing the 301 experience for old blog.

By: drinkingdanny

drinkingdanny — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:52:48 +0000

Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly. That makes sense and In understand in the long term you definitely want to self-host.. One question I pose is can a programmer hard-code page by page a permanent redirect? At my company they want to take the blog and use a platform that’s Cold Fusion and bring the blog on to their site. Is such a thing possible to hard code a 301 direct with the blog?

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:17:37 +0000

@drinkingdanny
When i redirect wordpress.com blog to self hosted then PR remains same but traffic increases.
The default domain mapping from wordpress.com have 302 redirects which mean “temporary redirect”.
For newbies wordpress.com have higher PR n SEO values as compared with their new domain.
For me self-domain is more important than PR n SEO (as i can manage it latter).

You have all the options open

By: drinkingdanny

drinkingdanny — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:23:37 +0000

So after you transfer, pay for the upgrade domain mapping, how does this affect your PR, and traffic that you have built will it transfer with the redirect. I have heard this is a 302 so it will not and you need a permanent 301 redirect to retain the traffic. Is any of this true?? Thanks

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:37:30 +0000

@marty
Your understanding is absolutely correct.
First verify the domain then upgrade and redirect the wordpress.com blog into self hosted.
Feel free to drop your question in case you have any issues in transferring wordpress.com blog to self hosted domain.
Cheers,

By: marty

marty — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:51:38 +0000

Hi and thank you for the post,

I am a bit nervous about the redirect as I’m fairly ignorant to the results of what each step is doing. I have my site hosted with an entirely different theme that I purchased and then modified.

My old blog hosted on wordpress.com is a theme I’d like to abandon. What I am understanding is that you essentially move your own domain and point it at the old one, and then (once verified) you point the wordpress.com back to the self hosted site at the same domain name. Is that correct?

I am happy you have created this resource. I appreciate your blog.

Marty

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:14:51 +0000

@Jarret
Cheers for redirecting your old readers into your new base !

By: Jarret

Jarret — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:12:13 +0000

Hey, thanks for this tip. I finally got around to redirecting my old wordpress.com blog. I wasn’t sure what to do since I had launched a new blog on a self-hosted domain and used content from an old wordpress.com blog. I was aware of potential duplicate content issues, but my old site was still getting a fair amount of traffic.

I had a few issues since I had changed my link structure to remove the date. Redirection was a good plugin to solve this problem, though its documentation isn’t very good.

It took about 30 minutes for wordpress.com to be able to verify the new name servers prior to switching them back.

thanks again,

Jarret