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I own a domain e.g. myname.com but host my blog with wordpress.com e.g. myname.wordpress.com

Can I forward the traffic visiting my domain name to my wordpress.com blog so that when my friends look for my site using google they easily find the content of my blog?

A step by step tutorial would be helpful.

Many thanks.

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Using the poorman method, you can add a URL Frame in myname.com to load the content from myname.wordpress.com depending of your nameservers panel/ownership/possible customization

The real wordpress supported config is the paid one called domain mapping

http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/

Hope this helps

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hi @jflaflamme : Many Thanks your ideas is helpful. but I heard an issued that if we use iframe SEO will flow to the myname.wordpress.com.. is that right.? – Ardhan Kusuma Jan 27 at 8:04
Yes i heard that also, but it wasn't the question asked , i suggest you to ask a new question with this and tag it as seo – jflaflamme Jan 27 at 21:16
Okey nice suggest – Ardhan Kusuma Jan 30 at 8:47
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You need to put a htaccess file in the root of myname.com containing a 301 redirect like this

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myname\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^ http://myname.wordpress.com [R=301,L]

If the file doesn't exist it should be called .htaccess

This does depend on what kind of server your domain is hosted on.

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hi @toomanyairmiles, if redirected i want to make it that myname.wordpress.com is not shown in address bar.. can i make if redirected just show in adress bar myname.com not instead myname.wordpress.com... Thanks – Ardhan Kusuma Jan 27 at 8:07
Well, the only way to do that would be a framed forward, but that would hit the google ranking – toomanyairmiles Jan 28 at 0:05
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