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TypePad and GoDaddy: Don't MASK it, MAP it!

Mapping will avoid some of the pitfalls of masking, such as hidden link URLs. Here's how to MAP using GoDaddy and TypePad:

First register the Domain Name at GoDaddy. Leave GoDaddy running in one Browser window or tab.

Go to TypePad in a different browser window or tab

Hit Typepad Control Panel -> Site Access -> Domain Mapping

Click "Begin Here: Map a Domain Name"

Type in the new domain name, click Get DNS Settings. Typepad will display the CNAME Record, you can drag your curser across the CNAME and hit Edit -> Copy, so you don't have to type it when you get to that step.... then Click "Complete Final Step"

Tell Typepad which individual blog to map, click Add Domain

Now back to GoDaddy

At the GoDaddy Domain Control Center, place a check mark at the left of your new domain to select it, then click Nameservers

In the Default Nameserver tab, select "Default Parked Nameservers", click OK

In the section below, double click the domain name to go to the details page

Find "Total DNS" in the middle column, and click on "Total DNS Control and MX Records"

The first row item in the list is www @

Click on the pencil icon (edit) in the far left column

On the line "Points to Host Name" type in the CNAME information from Typepad (If you copied it earlier from TypePad, just hit Edit -> Paste) Click OK.

Wait. This one took just about one hour to resolve. Test. When the domain address finally resolves to your TypePad blog, go back to your TypePad Control Panel (Control Panel -> Site Access -> Domain Mapping)

Scroll down to the list of your domains. Check your new domain "Active". Click "Set"

And Brian, since your blog already exists, and you'll need to first disable your existing forwarding, you might want to do this at, say, 3:00 AM.

Posted by Cheryl Johnson on 05/27/2007 07:51 PM

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9 Comments on TypePad and GoDaddy: Don't MASK it, MAP it!

I'm just starting to look at TypePad as a blog solution outside of the Rain. Thanks for putting together this well-written and illustrated post for domain mapping. Should be very easy to follow!

05/27/2007 08:31 PM

by John Novak - Las Vegas and Henderson NV Real Estate (Keller Williams Realty The Marketplace)

This is amazing information. Cheryl, you always write so clearly. I've bookmarked this for - again - when I have more time than I do right now. Such gooooood stuff!!!

05/27/2007 09:14 PM

by Mesa, Arizona Real Estate *** Teri Ellis, Broker, ABR,CRS,GRI,ePRO,MRE (Homes Arizona Real Estate LLC)

Cheryl, forgive me. I am still learning all this. What will MAPing do for my blog again?

10/21/2007 05:50 PM

by Marie Kletke - Broker Long Beach Real Estate (On Point Realty - Long Beach, California)

Marie: Mapping works like this .... you start a blog with TypePad or WordPress, and by default, the blog's web address is something like myblog.wordpress.com ... so you register a new domain at GoDaddy that's more to your liking, maybe something like mariesellshomes.com

Domain Mapping configures your domain name mariesellshomes.com to point to your blog at myblog.wordpress.com

Domain mapping is more than domain forwarding, because your individual post links and all your blog pages contain the address of your domain mariesellshomes.com and not your TypePad or Wordpress subdomain myblog.wordpress.com

Does that help?

10/22/2007 08:07 PM

by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Cheryl, You always amaze me with your knowledge. Yikes I feel like a kid learning to walk, talk, button my own shoes and ride a bike all at once...It might help if I don't try to read your tutorials at 2am... LOL!

Ginger

10/26/2007 01:05 AM

by Wilmington NC Real Estate Ginger & Roger Sala Keller Williams (Keller Williams Wilmington North Carolina)

11/04/2007 01:06 AM

Really the converstation was over here

02/16/2008 01:17 PM

by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.)

Explaining the difference between domain mapping and domain forwarding was enlightening. I didn't realize you could map a domain and have it appear as the address on all your blog pages. Which site would get the SEO or links credit ?

02/16/2008 01:30 PM

by Sharon Simms St Pete Florida CRS CIPS CLHMS (RE/MAX Metro)

      I saw one website of real estate business which will provide all the information regarding houses,moratage stores,open house stores,legal laws etc.
      This site will also give information on store/packing services .They have national wide locations.You can add your business there .
      please check this link
      http://www.aaamoving-store.com/

06/06/2008 01:17 AM

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