I have registered a domain for a blog and before I go for a full fledged hosting solution, I want to try out some ideas by building a similar blog on wordpress.org or on blogspot.com. While these trails go on, I would also like to develop links. Namecheap provides URL redirection. Can I use this service to redirect my XYZ.com to XYZ.wordpress.org or XYZ.blogspot.com? Read somewhere that URL redirection is bad for SEO. But does the form of redirection I am looking at fall under that category? Can you please help?
i think you can use 301 redirect for it and 301 will not hurt your seo or pr. everythink will be transfered to new domain with 301 redirect
Thanks for the response trichnosis. This domain is hosted on namecheap. Do I have control on the type of redirect? or does namecheap decide on that? (really dumb question - apologies).