Few things to check before moving to Custom Blogger Domain
Here are few things to check, before you would move your old “blogspot” blog to custom domain. I moved my blog http://amanthan.blogspot.com to blog.amanthan.com. The primary reason behind doing this
- Email addresses for the domain
- I can create additional pages and link them to my blog. For example, if I happen to publish some white papers , I can have them all on the same domain.
- Can publish more detailed “About” page etc.
- More control and the option to move to some other hosting service, if need be.
- Want to host photos on the same domain
- Its free !!
The trade-off ?
- Though all the old links direct to the new site, you will lose your google page rank.
- The blog will lose its technorati rank. Gotta start all over again.
- Though the old pages indexed in Google will still come to new blog, I am not sure about the ranking of new posts in Google Search. Perhaps the posts will never make it to the front page for a while !!
- None of the trac-back work any longer.
Consider all of these before making the move. If you think , some of these things listed here are incorrect, leave a comment and I will update them.
Update: Some of my readers reported and I have noticed that this blog is down with “page not found” error. Checked the other “blogspot” blogs and they seem to be working fine. This might be because of issues with URL redirection.
Update: Inside Google has some more on this.
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July 9th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Hi,
We have created a blog at xxxx.blogspot.com now we are not able to move it to the custom domain http://www.xxxxx.com/blog/default can you please help us in indentifying how this can be done.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Hi.
How long did it take for you until Google stopped indexing the old blogspot entries? I see that now site:amanthan.blogspot.com gives no results (and the redirect still works). So good for you.
I am 3 weeks after the move and on the old blogspot pages I still rank very high, even though they redirect to the new pages (which rank much lower). No way to make Google forget the old blogspot site…
It’s funny that Google does not know what Blogger does…
September 18th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Susanna,
It took more than a couple of months before everything was back to normal.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:02 am
Oh, thank you.
At least now I know what to expect…
Best,