I want to have my Blogger blog hosted at a unique domain How does Blogger redirect traffic to existing posts? Do they 301 redirect all existing blogspot.com urls to the new domain?
You have the ability to purchase domain name, set up hosting, and then inside your Blogger control panel enter your ftp info, in which it publishes to your hosting when you select to publish blog.
I am not sure what blogger will do, but you can always reregister the same subdomain name and then do a redirect to your new domain name yourself.
Yes, I know that; that's not my question How will they redirect traffic from the existing blogspot.com domain to the new domain? Do they automatically setup 301 redirects for each post or am I going to have broken links all over the place?
Just set up the redirect yourself so that name.blogspot.com/whatever will go to newdomainname.com/whatever
That was my point. So yours was pretty much a useless post, wouldn't you say? Since he doesn't own the blogspot.com domain, it's unlikely that he can use the standard 301 redirects via .htaccess. That leaves him with one of the following methods: 1. Put this in the <HEAD>... </HEAD> section: <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="10; URL=http://www.newsite.com"> Code (markup): 2. Add this anywhere in the body: <?PHP header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header ('Location: http://www.newsite.com'); exit (); ?> Code (markup): But the original question was what will Blogger do automatically, if anything... I don't know the answer to that, but you may be able to find an answer at http://help.blogger.com/ or at http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help.
I do believe that when you switch a blog from blogspot to your own domain, your old blogspot url becomes available for registration right away. I recall that happening in my case. All he will have to do is reregister the same blogspot url and add the code to redirect to his own domain name.
Glad I asked! So do engines consider this a 301 redirect like that through the htaccess? You are right, I can't access that file to create a standard 301
Well this isn't going well http://seobrien.blogspot.com no longer works and I can't edit anything to redirect it My new domain is live at http://www.seobrien.com but I can't redirect traffic to it. Any ideas?
Can you try re-signing up to that blogspot account? Then publish a single page blog with one of the on-page redirectes.
That is exactly what should have been done immediately. Now it looks like someone else has registered and is redirecting it to some affiliate search page.
Yep, now I know. Consider this a warning to anyone using blogger and setting up their own domain. Blogger does not own its subdomains! If you run mycoolblog.blogspot.com and move it to www.mycoolblog.com you must immediately go back to blogger, reserve the domain again and set up a redirect or someone else will grab it!