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Cutie Ning |
Jul 21 2008, 01:17 PM
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I found this from source: quickonlinetips.com See if this helps.
Blogspot to Hosted Domain Name : Feeds, Links, Search Traffic and Pagerank Issues
I am thinking for quite some time to move Quick Online Tips to my own webhosting and domain name. The problem is that it is not so easy to move a website from Blogspot / Blogger to my own web hosting.
I had earlier bought the domain name www.QuickOnlineTips.com from GoDaddy.com- a very popular domain name registrar. Webhosting is served by Dreamhost. I now have a huge 1 Terabyte bandwidth and can also host unlimited domains and subdomains.
Here are the issues… Which Blogging Platform? I plan to keep blogger as the blog publishing software. Why? I can republish by FTP the whole blog to my own web hosting in a few minutes. Hopefully the comments will stick to the posts. I foud this excellent article on moving from Blogspot to Blogger FTP hosted custom domains.
Why not wordpress? - I can opt for Wordpress too. Wordpress has a good post on importing from Blogger. And this script helps you import your comments too. But I find the Blogger platform very flexible and I am used to modifying it very well as I like.
Url Issues - Pagerank, Search Traffic & Sandbox The url will change from http://pchere.blogspot.com/abcd to http://www.quickonlinetips.com/abcd. A 301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It is simple to implement and preserves your search engine rankings for that particular page. Matt Cutt recommends you put a 301 (permanent) redirect on every page. But…”I believe Googlebot sees the 301 and puts the destination url back in the queue, so it gets crawled a little later. I have heard some reports of people having issues with doing a 301 from olddomain.com to newdomain.com.”
But Blogger will not let you create the htaccess file or other methods to establish a 301 redirect. So you end up creating a Meta refresh tag, redirect with javascript or simply put a link pointing to the new address, and lose all pagerank and resultant search engine traffic along the way.
Another big problem is I might end up in the Google Sandbox. Google brings in a lot of traffic as this site now has a page rank of 6 and some popular pages PR7. How can I survive the Google Sandbox?
What about the Blogger / Blogspot blog? I intend to keep this blog running for some while with a notice on top that the links will soon change? Later I will fix up the template, Keeping only a list of some popular posts where backlinks may be comming. An instruction to redirect by changing the url domain name.
Remembering all the time that the moment you export the blog, the blogspot subdomain is released to the public, so you immediately reclaim it. A new account will have no posts, so all is lost. So you take back the subdomain using the same blog and republish and once you have fixed the template and other stuff, you again switch back to FTP. But the problem is sometimes errors occurs and you lose control of the blogger blog. Well I am still testing with some test blogs on how it will work seamlessly.
Can these posts redirect be done automatically in some way? I will not delete any of the posts since they will turn up 404 otherwise. All posts will simply show the same index page which will show the blog has moved. I am still wondering about my pagerank and if google penalizes me for this.
What about the backlinks? Hundreds of sites link back to this blog? I guess moving out to a new domain name will remove the page rank advantage (unless blogger gives me a 301 redirect). Then starts the long process to see who links back at Technorati, Google, Yahoo, MSN and check my statistics for incomming links and request sites linking back to update their links and I guess the backlinks will develop again over time and the PR will come back. But I am not sure how many webmasters might take the task of updating the links. Although it will spoil a years work, in the long run it should prove beneficial.
What about the site feed? Some of my initial readers who subscribed to the atom feed will have to change the url to the feedburner feed. The feedburner feed readers would not have to change their settings since I will simply change the target feed for the feedburner feed. I am glad I set up a single feed and changed the autodiscovery settings earlier. Now that works for me.
Advantage to move to my own domain and hosting? I am in full control of my website. The blogger navbar can be removed if I publish by FTP. The site gets more credibility of being a genuine blog and will attract serious readers and bigger advertisers. I can run my own scripts, forums, wikis and other tools easily.
If you check the Blogger Vote for a Feature, you will find an option “I want to use a custom domain name with my Blog*Spot blog.” So maybe they have this feature in the works. After all Google runs Blogger. If they allow an official way to do it, they will take care of the page rank and search engine visitors too. They just need to enable an option to set a 301 redirect on blogspot subdomains, as an option or by a support request.
Am I doing the right thing to shifting from Blogspot? I risk to loose search engine traffic and page rank severly by SEO terms. What are your suggestions for doing this task smoothly?
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Daniel Joel |
Jul 21 2008, 03:19 PM
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Follow this steps :
Step 1: Prepare Blogger
Just so you know, I took these screenshots from a couple of blogs that I have, so don�t worry if the address or blog name change.
When you�re ready to your blog to your own domain, I�d recommend having at least two windows open - one pointed at this page in blogger - Settings: Publishing. When you go there, it will look like this, with your blogspot address filled in.
Before opening the second window, you can safely get Blogger prepared for you to save the settings. Click on Custom Domain, and then since you already have your own domain, click on �Switch to advanced settings�, and you will be taken to this screen -
Then, in the line marked Your Domain, put in the exact address you want your blog to publish on - for the most part, that will be www.{domain}.{tld}, however, you can use any prefix you wish. You will not need to worry about the missing files host, however you can read the help file on that if you wish.
Don�t save just yet; you need to make sure your domain is ready for Google�s hosting
Step 2: Prepare your domain
Now, open a new window or tab and go to the site where you registered your domain. For Godaddy, this is the screen you�ll see when you first log in; click on My Account to move to the next screen.
Now, click on Manage Domains in the middle box on the My Account Page. This will bring you to this screen, where you will want to click on the domain you�re going to publish your blog on.
This will bring you to the Domain Control Center. There are a lot of options on this page, but there is only one thing that we will have to concern ourselves with for now - Total DNS Control and MX Records. In the extremely unlikely chance that you are not using the default nameservers (normally NSxx.DOMAINCONTROL.COM) then the Total DNS Control will not be available and you will need to contact the system administrator of the service that has given you the nameservers to use in order to find out how to proceed.
When you click on Total DNS Control, you will be taken to this page which has what could be described as a plethora of options for hosting. In my shots, I have it set up for Blogger already, but that doesn�t mean I can�t explain it, right?
The only thing you will need to concern yourself with clicking on is �Add New CNAME Record�, if you do not see the prefix you�re using there. If it is there, simply click on the pencil icon and replace whatever is in the �Points To� line with the information below.
When you do this, the CNAME (Alias) section will appear on the screen, and you should fill in the details as I have, with www (or whatever prefix you�ve decided to go with) in the first line, and ghs.google.com in the second. You can leave the TTL (Time to LIve) at 1 hour, that should speed up the propogation of your site.
After clicking OK, you can then Return to the List, and logout of your domain�s account. Fortunately, you will not need to adjust any more settings now that Google have added the option of forwarding the basic domain (i.e. without the www) to www.{domain}.{tld}.
Step 3: Confirm Blogger�s Settings
Now that you have your domain ready to accept Google�s request, you can now confirm the settings in Blogger. Simply hit Save Settings, and it will confirm the new configuration of your blog�s address.
If you reload the page now, it will look like this. Of particular note is the line that says �Forward {domain}.{tld} to www.{domain}.{tld}�. This is something that I have not tried out, so if you wish to try it out, it may not work, claiming that there is another blog on that domain.
There is a workaround that I did which allowed for you to forward all the traffic that was going to {domain}.{tld} to www�., which involved forwarding the domain to your old Blogspot address, however, if the redirection works out, you will not have to do that.
Lastly, if you decide to move your blog to a full-fledged host and return your old blog to its blogspot domain, simply click the blogspot.com link next to Switch to.
What do you do now?
There are a few things that you will need to do after getting your blog�s address moved over from Blogspot to your own domain. Your list of things may vary, depending on what you all have on your site.
- Let everyone know about your new address, and tell them to update their links. - If you have trackers installed, update the addresses they�re tracking to include the new address for your blog - You will need to reclaim your new blog on Technorati. If you no longer want your old address to be listed in their listings, you can send them a note requesting that the old one be marked as irrelevant. - If you�re a part of social networking sites like Bumpzee or Mybloglog, change the address of your blog there; on Bumpzee, that means that your blog will be placed back in the moderation queue for any communities you�re a part of. - Update the links within your site to reflect your new domain. While all of those links will still work, it�s a good idea to change over the address in case you decide to move your blog in the future. - This is just a tip, and not necessary - if you haven�t already done so, integrate your Blogger feed with FeedBurner, and encourage people to sign up using the FeedBurner link directly
This post has been edited by Daniel Joel: Jul 21 2008, 04:07 PM
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couponmagnet |
May 12 2009, 01:16 AM
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HI! Thank you for all the great info. The steps described in Daniel Joel's post helped me a lot!!
I have had other problems that I was hoping I could get help with. After doing all the steps in the post by Daniel Joel, I checked my site and the first page "www.thecouponmagnet.com" is fine. But, when i click on a link to look at a particular post (let's say, "Kids Meal Offers"), where my followers gadget is, i get this error message, "This gadget is configured incorrectly. Webmaster hint: Please ensure that "Friend Connect Settings - Home URL" matches the URL of this site." where do i go to fix this?
I found a few tips online, but no one seems to talk as plainly as you all! lol I know very little about building a website. I really just wanted to omit the ".blogspot.com" and thought that by buying a domain name from blogger/go daddy, this would be easy. I'm now finding out that it's not that easy.
The other problem that i'm having is that all those links i was talking about, when i click on them, they still say "www.couponmagnet.blogspot.com/kids-meal-offers" instead of www.thecouponmagnet.com/kids-meal-offers. how do i make all those go to "www.thecouponmagnet.com/" also? Thank you in advance! Christy
This post has been edited by couponmagnet: May 12 2009, 01:18 AM
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giffy |
Jan 27 2013, 07:15 AM
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QUOTE(Fkr @ Dec 1 2008, 08:37 AM) does not work
Can you explain with goddady becasue it has new design ?
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To transfer your blodspot to your dmain name follow the steps below:- Step 1: Prepare your domain1.First, go to the site where you registered your domain. For Godaddy, log in to your account, then click on My Account to move to the next screen. Now, click on your domain name 2.On DNS Manager section, click on Launch 3.Scroll down until you see the CNAME (Alias) section. 4.On the host column, locate "www" at the end of the column, then simply click on the pencil icon and replace @ by ghs.google.com as the host name. You can leave the TTL (Time to LIve) at 1 hour, that should speed up the propogation of your site. 5.Save your settings and logout of your domain’s account. Fortunately, you will not need to adjust any more settings now that Google have added the option of forwarding the basic domain (i.e. without the www) to www.{domain}.{tld}. Step 2: Prepare your Blogger1.When you’re ready to your blog to your own domain, from your Dashboard, goto Settings>Publishing. Then click on Custom Domain. 2.Since you already have your own domain, click on “Switch to advanced settings”. 3.Then, in the line marked Your Domain, put in the exact address you want your blog to publish on - for the most part, that will be www.{domain}.{tld}, however, you can use any prefix you wish. 4.Now, simply hit Save Settings, and it will confirm the new configuration of your blog’s address. 5.Lastly, if you decide to move your blog to a full-fledged host and return your old blog to its blogspot domain, simply click the blogspot.com link next to Switch to. Source from mobimas.info. After transferring your blogspot to your domain name, View the updated information on Whoisxy.com . This post has been edited by giffy: Jan 27 2013, 07:16 AM
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