You Can Ditch The .BlogSpot Extension Now

Mar 27, 2007

I came across this a long time back but forgot to mention it. If you’ve been publishing a blog using Blogger and now want to shift to your own domain name you can easily do it. In January Blogger introduced a service to easily shift your Blogger blog to your own domain name without you having to abandon your previous posts.

Actually you could always post, using Blogger, to another domain. The problem was, how to redirect the hundreds of posts that have already been written at Blogger? I know many people who face this problem. You now just have to register a new domain and submit the link at Blogger under the Publishing tab (a sub-tab of the Settings tab). Once you have submitted the link, all your current blog links, for instance http://maniacalmusings.blogspot.com/2007/03/nothing-to-say.html will be redirected to http://www.maniacalmusings.com/2007/03/nothing-to-say.html without you having to do any redirect tweaking. The following needs to be done first:

Your domain, for instance http://www.maniacalmusings.com should be fully active.
You should have a Google account because you need to use the new version of Blogger.

Personally, I’d advise you to get all your posts actually published under your own domain so that you can take regular backups. It’s a bit difficult, but you can transfer all your posts in such a manner that the posts are recreated on your own server, without playing havoc with your current links.

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One Response to “You Can Ditch The .BlogSpot Extension Now”

Dorian Wales @ The Personal Financier
May 24th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Hi,
I’ve found your post on the subject very helpful.
I was wondering if you can expand a bit on some ramifications such as:
1. New links to the new domain (do they add up with the old ?)
2. Feedburner feeds - what are the necessary updates?
3. Technorati ?
4. Search results drop?
I’d love to hear more from your experience.
Regards,
Dorian