Moving Blog to Custom Domain
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Hi All - I am currently attempting to move a blog (companyname.blogspot.com) that has a 2/10 GPR to a custom domain name so that I can get my targeted keywords in the domain name. The new domain will just be www.targetedkeyword.com. There are easy instructions for doing this with the A record and CNAME changes in the Blogger help, but I am worried about losing rank and links if I do this. Can you guys help me understand what the ramifications would be, and how I can accomplish this without losing the 2/10 mojo? Thanks!
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I have a couple of friends who started on blogspot and when their blogs became successful moved them to a new domain. I think that they did the right thing because they will be running those blogs for years into the future.
They moved all of their content but made very obvious annoucement on every page of the old blog about the move and made links to help visitors get there easily.
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I am considering a similar move. Is it better to move the blog and deal with the consequences or leave it as is?
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Thanks EGOL - that's what I figured, but was hoping not to hear. I would have set it up with a custom domain originally myself, but I am taking this one over, so it was already set up with the other name originally.
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I do not believe that blogspot has a way to do 301 redirects.... so if you move all of the linklove and rankings will be trapped on blogspot.
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