Comments on: Google Adds Change of Address To Notify Google Of Domain Change http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-change-of-address-to-notify-google-of-domain-change-20801 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:49:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: nickstamoulis http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-change-of-address-to-notify-google-of-domain-change-20801/comment-page-1#comment-5893 nickstamoulis Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:00:46 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=20801#comment-5893 This is excellent information, thanks for the heads up on this new feature! I have been in situations where this would have made the process of moving to a new domain much easier and more streamlined. This is excellent information, thanks for the heads up on this new feature! I have been in situations where this would have made the process of moving to a new domain much easier and more streamlined.

]]> By: Cohn http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-change-of-address-to-notify-google-of-domain-change-20801/comment-page-1#comment-5867 Cohn Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:51:12 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=20801#comment-5867 I was initially happy to learn of this new Google change of address service because I had upgraded my Cohn.Wordpress.com blog (a Wordpress.com subdomain) on January 29, 2009 via Wordpress.com's service called Domain Mapping - http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/ and thought it might shorten what has turned out to be a six month domain name change "penalty" in Google. Had I known then what I know now, I wouldn't have done it. 134 days later not only is my original Wordpress.com blog not getting new posts indexed in Google after I upgraded, neither is my mapped domain - SearchMarketingCommunications.com getting indexed which effectively ended all of my Google search referrals. Both Yahoo and Live - now Bing have been crawling and indexing the new domain for several months. I thought Google's new change of address service might shave some of the roughly 46 days remaining before my site gets put back in their index - but no such luck. According to their help page: "In addition, make sure your original site is not a subdomain (for example, http://newsite.example.com)." Provided I have read this correctly - Wordpress subdomains and Wordpress Domain Mapping aren't supported by Google's new change of address service. If someone could explain why Wordpress.com subdomains aren’t supported or when I could hope to see my old blog and its new domain back in Google again I’d appreciate it. I was initially happy to learn of this new Google change of address service because I had upgraded my Cohn.Wordpress.com blog (a Wordpress.com subdomain) on January 29, 2009 via Wordpress.com’s service called Domain Mapping – http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
and thought it might shorten what has turned out to be a six month domain name change “penalty” in Google.

Had I known then what I know now, I wouldn’t have done it.

134 days later not only is my original Wordpress.com blog not getting new posts indexed in Google after I upgraded, neither is my mapped domain – SearchMarketingCommunications.com getting indexed which effectively ended all of my Google search referrals.
Both Yahoo and Live – now Bing have been crawling and indexing the new domain for several months.

I thought Google’s new change of address service might shave some of the roughly 46 days remaining before my site gets put back in their index – but no such luck.

According to their help page: “In addition, make sure your original site is not a subdomain (for example, http://newsite.example.com).”

Provided I have read this correctly – Wordpress subdomains and Wordpress Domain Mapping aren’t supported by Google’s new change of address service.

If someone could explain why Wordpress.com subdomains aren’t supported or when I could hope to see my old blog and its new domain back in Google again I’d appreciate it.

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