Comments on: Should I Blog on My Website or a New Location? http://www.valnelson.com/blogging/blog-url-domain/ Make Your Mark... It's Time. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Val Nelson http://www.valnelson.com/blogging/blog-url-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-1733 Val Nelson Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:53:32 +0000 http://www.valnelson.com/?p=1063#comment-1733 Mary, those are all great questions. I can see why your head is spinning. You're not alone in those concerns. The idea of changing a URL midstream is risky and not always the way to go especially if you are happy with your blog traffic now. You'd want to get someone's advice who can dig into your stats. There would have to be enough payoffs to justify the temporary drop in traffic that would inevitably happen during a URL switch. (See my answer to Vikas above.) One of the best things about having a blog is to draw traffic to your main website and it is usually more effective at that when it's on the main website domain. But it depends on so many things, such as how actively you promote each site. I'd have to see how Blogger handles the custom URL feature in order to advise on whether that's effective from a search engine perspective. Often those things are not done in a search engine friendly way. My gut tells me your best bet is to leave things as they are for now and make sure your links back and forth are clear and easy to find. Best wishes. Mary, those are all great questions. I can see why your head is spinning. You’re not alone in those concerns.

The idea of changing a URL midstream is risky and not always the way to go especially if you are happy with your blog traffic now. You’d want to get someone’s advice who can dig into your stats. There would have to be enough payoffs to justify the temporary drop in traffic that would inevitably happen during a URL switch. (See my answer to Vikas above.)

One of the best things about having a blog is to draw traffic to your main website and it is usually more effective at that when it’s on the main website domain. But it depends on so many things, such as how actively you promote each site.

I’d have to see how Blogger handles the custom URL feature in order to advise on whether that’s effective from a search engine perspective. Often those things are not done in a search engine friendly way.

My gut tells me your best bet is to leave things as they are for now and make sure your links back and forth are clear and easy to find.

Best wishes.

]]> By: Mary http://www.valnelson.com/blogging/blog-url-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 Mary Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:03:13 +0000 http://www.valnelson.com/?p=1063#comment-1724 Yeah, but....won't I get traffic advantages from hosting the blog portion of my website at blogger.com because of the community aspect? Is there a way I could do this? Or should I not even be thinking about this in the first place? My new website is freelancewriterchick.com my blogger.com blog is freelancewriterchick.blogspot.com. I like the traffic at blogger.com. Should I just keep them both and lonk back and forth? or can I use the cutom URL feature for a subdomain? signed, Head spinning! Yeah, but….won’t I get traffic advantages from hosting the blog portion of my website at blogger.com because of the community aspect? Is there a way I could do this? Or should I not even be thinking about this in the first place? My new website is freelancewriterchick.com my blogger.com blog is freelancewriterchick.blogspot.com. I like the traffic at blogger.com. Should I just keep them both and lonk back and forth? or can I use the cutom URL feature for a subdomain? signed, Head spinning!

]]> By: Vikas Gupta http://www.valnelson.com/blogging/blog-url-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-1642 Vikas Gupta Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:30:02 +0000 http://www.valnelson.com/?p=1063#comment-1642 Yeah, the URL redirect is working perfectly. Thanks. I hope to get back my PR 4 asap! :) I am following your blog regularly now. Thanks. Liked your 350 badge; I also had it sometime ago. Am watching a film now; replies to replies, if any, will be after 3 hours. Thanks again; take care. :) Yeah, the URL redirect is working perfectly. Thanks. I hope to get back my PR 4 asap! :)

I am following your blog regularly now. Thanks.

Liked your 350 badge; I also had it sometime ago. Am watching a film now; replies to replies, if any, will be after 3 hours.

Thanks again; take care. :)

]]> By: Val Nelson http://www.valnelson.com/blogging/blog-url-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-1641 Val Nelson Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:24:41 +0000 http://www.valnelson.com/?p=1063#comment-1641 Hi Vikas, Switching from one URL to another after your website is already live will cause a drop in Google PR (PageRank) initially. It's a risky thing to do, but it will pay off in the long run if you build up inbound links to the new URL. If the old URL was properly forwarded to the new one, the PR should rise sooner than later. You're right that the domain benefit is the same whether using Wordpress.org or Wordpress.com. However, Wordpress.org offers other SEO benefits that will help if implemented well. Good luck! Hi Vikas,
Switching from one URL to another after your website is already live will cause a drop in Google PR (PageRank) initially. It’s a risky thing to do, but it will pay off in the long run if you build up inbound links to the new URL.

If the old URL was properly forwarded to the new one, the PR should rise sooner than later.

You’re right that the domain benefit is the same whether using WordPress.org or WordPress.com. However, WordPress.org offers other SEO benefits that will help if implemented well.

Good luck!

]]> By: Vikas Gupta http://www.valnelson.com/blogging/blog-url-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-1638 Vikas Gupta Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:00:31 +0000 http://www.valnelson.com/?p=1063#comment-1638 I was vikasgupta.wordpress.com and now it forwards to vikas-gupta.in and my PR dropped from 4 to 0 !!!!!!!!!!! WordPress charged 10 dollars for it. I will self-host soon but my own domain, I know, will get a higher ranking even if it is still on WordPress.com. Isn't that true? I was vikasgupta.wordpress.com and now it forwards to vikas-gupta.in and my PR dropped from 4 to 0 !!!!!!!!!!! WordPress charged 10 dollars for it.

I will self-host soon but my own domain, I know, will get a higher ranking even if it is still on WordPress.com. Isn’t that true?

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