Blazing Truth

I’m not raking up views though. I’ve got it all optimized with SEO and such, but if anything my ratings have gone down. What do you suggest?

Anything?

@sammysimms, thanks I’ll try to get on that immediately. Those are all great suggestions! Thank you for your input, and I hope you come back to check it all out again soon!

Anybody else have any other suggestions?

In a bluehost live chat I was told that it was working fine. everybody else can see the red theme, but I keep getting redirected to the old free wordpress.com blog as it was mapped to the domain originally.

he suggested it might be a caching problem, and after clearing my browser’s cache nothing worked. he told me to wait it out until the ISP cleared its cache. I also once got a redirecting error of some sort while i was trying to load the url.

thoughts?

So when I purchase a Webhost such as Bluehost, I can upload the WordPress software onto it using the Auto-install feature, which will let me update my blog on the domain I registered with plugins, new themes, and advertisements?

Was purchasing Domain Mapping pointless if that was my intent?

I paid for domain registration and mapping. What is the difference between the two?

Also, so if I want to be able to access plugins and host ads on my domain, I would need to have a Web Host. How would I go about doing that?

Thanks for the reply, Dion. I’ll try to explain better.

I had a free wordpress.com blog running at davidmasten.wordpress.com.

I selected upgrade and paid to have it mapped onto a domain, blazingtruth.com

I have access to a domain manager at https://dcc.securepayment.net and have no idea how to run it or how to upload the WordPress software to that webspace.

Could I get more detail as to how I go about doing that?

also am confused about publishing, which I think may be my problem.

Do I select Web Deploy or FTP and what is my server? Is it https://dcc.securepayment.net/ or something else?

My user is my wordpress.com username? or something else?

Still confused.

I got to a login screen and was able to login to wordpress 3.1.3 on an admin account.

The blog there was completely blank and appeared to be separate from my wordpress.com blog & blazingtruth.com domain.

How do I connect the two? I don’t think I’ve configured mysql and I have no idea how to access cpannel (or what that even is) and I still don’t know what I’m doing. Incredibly confused.

OK I’ve managed to download the web platform installer and I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing.

I managed also to find the webmatrix which has the wordpress 3.1.3 uploaded to it, but I’m not sure how to configure everything so the new wordpress can receive old blog entries and update new ones…?