Having  just set up WordPress on here this morning one additional thing I wanted to do which was to put a redirect in place to redirect my sub domain on wordpress.org (which is http://chrisshennan.wordpress.com) to point to my own domain name.

My main reason for doing this was that when I comment on some of my friends blogs (mainly those on blogspot) I have posted the comment using my WordPress profile which only allows me to enter my wordpress username which then links to username.wordpress.com.  As a result I would have to be adding my new blogs entries to 2 blogs which would be a waste of time and bad in terms or SEO (duplicated content resulting in a lower search engine listings).

Fortunately, I’m not the only person who was wanting to do this and I stumbled upon a PDF written by BlogWell which tells you how to do this in simple and easy to understand terms and also features illustrations which show you exactly how the process works.

The general idea is that you need to pay WordPress $10 a year for this and you also need to temporarily change your domain name servers to the ones for WordPress.  This may not be too good if you are trying to put the redirect in for a domain which is already up and running but is perfect for setting up with a brand new domain.  Due to processes involve in changing domain name servers the whole process could take several days to complete but I managed to get the whole thing done in 10 minutes although I’ll need to keep an eye on things overs the next few days as these changes aren’t normally reflected as quickly.