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Domain Forwarding Help!

by Jason Perez O'Connor
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Basically I have a blog with a name I wish I hadn't chosen, and now I want to change it but keep it so that the things I've linked to it still remain active.

Now I'm with godaddy, and I created my new Domain, but when I put forward with Masking, as i browse my site the Web address in the search bar stays the same, and doesn't add the post name in as well.

Such as I do a post on how to do twitter marketing, when I go to MyNewDomain.com and click on that post, It stays as MyNewDomain.com rather than MyNewDomain.com/twitter-marketing .

Would appreciate some help.

From The Guy Who Never Says "No" Jay,

Thanks.
#domain #forwarding
  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    don't use the 'mask' feature as that is what masking does.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jason Perez O'Connor
      Originally Posted by VegasGreg View Post

      don't use the 'mask' feature as that is what masking does.
      I've taken that off, but now when I click on a post, it goes back to MyOldDomain.com/Random-post
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    If you are just forwarding a domain name (masked or not) that is all you are really doing is taking incoming traffic from one domain and forwarding it to another domain.

    If you want the new domain to be the actual new site in full, you should transfer the whole site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jason Perez O'Connor
      Originally Posted by VegasGreg View Post

      If you are just forwarding a domain name (masked or not) that is all you are really doing is taking incoming traffic from one domain and forwarding it to another domain.

      If you want the new domain to be the actual new site in full, you should transfer the whole site.
      I think I've done it, since I have a wordpress hosting with GoDaddy, I simply swapped domain names and forwarded the old one to the new one, so my old links still produce traffic to my site.

      From the Guy Who Never Says "No" Jay,

      Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mattk
        Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor View Post

        I think I've done it, since I have a wordpress hosting with GoDaddy, I simply swapped domain names and forwarded the old one to the new one, so my old links still produce traffic to my site.

        From the Guy Who Never Says "No" Jay,

        Thanks.
        Jay, I could be wrong, but just forwarding the domain will eventually get your old site with all your old links de-indexed the next time Google crawls your site.

        You might need to do a 301 permanent redirect.

        If I am wrong, someone please tell me for future reference.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jason Perez O'Connor
          Originally Posted by Mattk View Post

          Jay, I could be wrong, but just forwarding the domain will eventually get your old site with all your old links de-indexed the next time Google crawls your site.

          You might need to do a 301 permanent redirect.

          If I am wrong, someone please tell me for future reference.
          No worries I'm on it!

          Thanks.
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