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By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:34:09 +0000

Hi Laurel

Was a bit, but it’s done now! And I’m nearly over it.

Does help with showing up under “pages from Australia” on Google though - now that I’m on the .com.au domain.

By: Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:23:50 +0000

You poor baby *cuddles* sounds like a nightmare!

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By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:40:14 +0000

Hi Greg

Thanks for the ideas!

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By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:50:27 +0000

Yikes - it is a big move.

My understanding of the help file regarding domains is the same as yours from reading the extract. I read somewhere else that domain mapping only works if you upgrade your wordpress.com account to use it.

There are two alternatives that you could have considered (although to be honest i recommend neither) to get around the problem:

1/ Continue to publish on wordpress.com and use a feed reading plugin to automatically update your hosted blog. That way you do get to continue to make use of your page ranking goodness on the original blog. As a side note - you can write the one blog but using category feeds and feedreaders you can have different categories be published to different blogs (like dlink for one, blogpond another etc

2/ Some domain registars allow the domain to be directed to anywhere so that it can appear that your .com.au is pointing to what ever page you want and with pages/entries etc ok. Might cause problems with feeds