From .blogspot.com to .com domain. I have some questions

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by thewolf32, Nov 17, 2007.

  1. #1
    I'm plannig to switch from blogspot to a .com domain.

    1.¿Will I loose all my traffic, search engine ranking (wich is great right now), and my alexa ranking?

    2.Is it worth it?

    3. Is there are domain company that accepts MoneyBookers or e-gold? Because my PayPal is limited because of my country.
     
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  2. thewolf32

    thewolf32 Active Member

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    No one??????
     
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  3. shaffiy

    shaffiy Active Member

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    sure it will affect your domain traffic and ranking. But after a while, if you put important and fully-aware link in your old blogspot pointing to your new .com , i'm quite sure your new .com site will bring you more visitor. so, i'll say that moving to .com is worthed, if you plan to maintain it in long term basis.

    no 3. You can find them in MoneyBooker site at merchants section. I have seen some of them, but forget the name.
     
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  4. izeaus

    izeaus Banned

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    Most companies accept only Paypal and Credit cards.. only Even Though some go ahead with Google Checkout
     
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  5. maggorz

    maggorz Active Member

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    I don't think it's a good idea because you will loose your traffic unless you can do a 301 redirect on blogspot?
     
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  6. niessuh

    niessuh Well-Known Member

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    No you will not lose your traffic because once a user enter your .blogspot domain they will be redirect immediately to your new .com domain

    Yes it's good. Since blogspot is owned by google. You have the chance to be in the rank of search engine. and since you got your domain. there's a probably that your search engine rank will be doubled. And you will got a shorter url that will easily be remembered by your readers.

    for domain registration you can try this: http://www.yourwebpoint.com/ e-gold and moneybookers are accepted..

    Hope I helped.
     
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  7. ColorWP.com

    ColorWP.com Notable Member

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    If you use the Blogger's custom domain feature, I suppose you wont lose your ranking and visitors, because Blogger automatically puts a 301 permanent redirect to your new domain.
    So when visitors and search engines visit:
    http://yourblog.blogspot.com
    they are redirected to
    http://yourdomain.com
    And if they visit:
    http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/yourpost.html
    they are also redirected to
    http://yourdomain.com/2007/11/yourpost.html
    So you don't have to be afraid of losing rankings but you can experience some duplicate content penalization for a while, since Google sees the same contant in the both of the URLs until it finds out that they only the domain is the real blog and not the Blogspot page.

    And about switching to custom domain, it is better in every possible way. It is rememberable, gives more trust etc...
     
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  8. edhel2005

    edhel2005 Peon

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    yep what the people above said, you don't have anything to loose, this a great way to go from free to semi-free, now the next step after you settle in your domain name would be to get some paid hosting :)
     
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  9. thewolf32

    thewolf32 Active Member

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    But what about my alexa ranking?
     
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  10. Nystul

    Nystul Well-Known Member

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    Alexa ranking is the last thing you should worry, unless u are into PPP or the likes of it. But with google on wrath for those, it is better to stay clear of it with new sites.
     
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