Comments on: How and why to get your own domain http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/ WordPress blogging tips, tools & tutorials Tue, 29 May 2012 03:41:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Do I Need a Domain? | one cool site http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/#comment-36239 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:46:05 +0000 http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/?p=593#comment-36239 [...] your own domain  makes it easier for your target audience to find your site. It provides more flexibility for an easy move to self-hosting should you care to move, and helps you keep your RSS subscribers if you do move. If you’ve [...]

]]> By: OMG! My Domain Name Expired | one cool site http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/#comment-34293 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:53:44 +0000 http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/?p=593#comment-34293 [...] posts purchasing your own domain name and/or How and why to get your own domain. Share this:tweetMoreDiggEmailLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. This entry was posted [...]

]]> By: timethief http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/#comment-25215 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:30:43 +0000 http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/?p=593#comment-25215 NO don’t do that! Dont’t touch them at all. What you see when you purchase domain mapping on the Admin side of the blog and in media files is the root blog URLs. This is normal. Do not touch the URLs or you will end up with a mess of 404′s.

]]> By: glasskeys http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/#comment-25208 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:05:41 +0000 http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/?p=593#comment-25208 Timethief,

I have a question related to this topic – image URLs, but first I think a quick bit of background info would be useful. I am currently hosted on wordpress.com, and all of my image links use the following URL: “blogname.files.wordpress.com/yyyy/mm/dd/postname/imagename/”.

Although domain mapping & offsite redirect are not an issue as I have my own registered domain, my question is this: Is it of any advantage or be worth the bother to go and edit all of my existing image URL’s on wordpress.com to point to my registered domain?

An example would be changing the wordpress links to the following which works if entered as an URL in the browser: “http://registereddomainname.com/yyyy/mm/imagename.png”

I am concerned about page rank, etc., in a scenario in which I decided to move to wordpress.org or another host provider.

Kindest regards,
Stephen

]]> By: Thinking about self hosting and Wordpress.org « One guy, three girls… http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/#comment-20465 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:10:11 +0000 http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/?p=593#comment-20465 [...] and why to get your own domain name - http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/.  A good list of advantages of getting your own domain name and identity.   Being self-hosted [...]

]]> By: timethief http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/#comment-14405 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:32:12 +0000 http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/?p=593#comment-14405 Thanks for the praise and the compliment too. I removed the suggested domain name you supplied in your comment because you are new to blogging and probably don’t know about domain name squatters.

Domain name squatters purchase domain names for a low price and then resell them to people who want them for a higher price. They have robotic programs that send bots out to forums, online groups and such to locate desired domain names and then they snap them up before the bloggers considering buying them can do so. I think your suggested domain name is a good one. Go for it! :)

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