Am buying a domain name for my blog. But i have some doubts, i hope you people help me.. I am planning to redirect the new domain to my blogspot adress because it will help to retain my old visitors. But when am configuring the domain to my blog without redirecting is there any benefit ??
Depend of what you wanna do... 1)You can buy a domain like .info or .com and redirect to your blogspot blog (ex. mysite.blogspot.com) and start to promote you new brandable domain. 2)Also you can buy a new domain .info or .com with hosting, upload your old blog from blogger, maybe using a wordpress blog for your new domain, and put a redirect 301 to your old blog on blogspot.com or a banner or something like these. I think second option can be more expensive... You need for it a domain name and a new hosting plan, I suggest to buy a .info domain and redirect to your old blog on blogspot.com
Not for your new name but when you redirect your blog it will count as a link for your already existing website.
Why not consider moving your blogspot to your own domain (Wordpress may be). I think running your blog on Wordpress is better in the long run..I have read a lot of pros and cons of running blog on blogspot...