In this course from the Blogging curriculum at SMUG, Chancellor Lee Aase shows how to map a Wordpress.com blog to a custom domain.

1. Blogging 305: Domain Mapping
Lee Aase
Chancellor
Social Media University, Global (SMUG)
http://social-media-university-global.org

2. A Higher-Level Elective
This one ISN’T free, but is still
cheap
Optional for individuals, but
advisable for organizations

3. Domain Mapping Benefits
Professional feel, shorter domain
Provides roadmap for growth so
you can move to self-hosted
Preserves Google juice

4. Benefactors, Guinea Pigs

5. Dad’s URL from GoDaddy

6. Set nameservers

7. Skip Everything Else

8. The Wordpress.com Side

9. Buy the $10 Upgrade

10. Put Blog at New Domain

11. When You’re Finished
You own the domain and the place to
host it for less than $20 per year
Old domain redirects to new
If you move to another hosting
service, just change the nameserver
and point to the new location; your
links will still work

12. Suus Non Ut Diffucile
Higher level course, but still not that hard
Can also map your blog to a subdomain like
blog.yourcompany.com
SMUGgles planning to invest lots of energy in
blogging should spring for the $19.19
http://social-media-university-global.org