Make sure the URL you give your blog is one you want to stick with. Don't name it something so outrageous people won't remember! (you'd think outrageous would help people remember but that's not always true.) Don't name it after some event in your life because those come and go and eventually that name will seem irrelevant to your blog content.
The original URL of this blog was: http://wearedisneybound.blogspot.com
When I decided to start blogging the intended purpose was to create my entries about the Walt Disney World trip my family is taking in May 2008. The intention was to document all the planning, feature places we'll visit, things we'll do and how I am making money to pay for it all.
My blog evolved. I still wrote about WDW but my blog became more and more about every day life and the money making aspect. I started including more and more information about the IWC (the $ making community I run)
My faithful readers understood what was happening, however, new readers were more than confused. Even with the blog description in my title, they just didn't understand the *we are disney bound* URL and how it related to my blog. Obviously the last thing I want are confused readers!
I also started blogging for cash. I soon found that if you have your own domain name you get more opportunities.
Plus, I noticed, via Google analytics, that when people do actually search for me, they are using unbalanced libra and Independent World, nothing to do with Disney and I see no one really remembers the *we are disney bound* URL.
With thoughts of having confused readers, the fact that one day we may not be *disney bound*, like the day we get back from our trip, not to say we'll never go again, but you get the point and the fact that I could have MORE blogging for cash opportunities
with my own domain name, I took the plunge and got one from Google for $10/year.
It's a good deal and the option to switch to your own domain name is in the tools of the blogspot blogs so it was super easy.
However, now my blog is in *transition*
Your blog's new address is http://www.unbalancedlibra.com/. Since it takes time for this new address to be available all over the Internet, you can still get to it at http://wearedisneybound.blogspot.com.
Your new address should work for everyone after at most 3 days. At that time we will redirect your readers from your old address to the new one.
That? SUCKS. My page rank was #1 with Google, now? My URL, http://www.unbalancedlibra.com can't be found.
I have had to resubmit my blog to umpteen search engines, I have had to resubmit my blog to all the pay per post sites I belong to and having basically a non existing page ranking at the moment, there are less opportunities, even though I have my own domain name now.
I've had to resubmit my blog URL to all my blogging communities, review sites, etc.
What a NIGHTMARE!
I know, it will all be okay in a few months but now? I wanna cry =/
1 comments:
I did that, too, and I am beyond frustrated! I had spent so much time getting my Alexa score down below a million and now it is over 2 million! I can't imagine how long that is going to take me!
I have been on my new domain for over a week, maybe two, but I still don't even have a page rank, even though I submitted it to google. Plus, I wonder if we'll get credited the links to our blogspot since it redirects to the new domain? I doubt it, but I could dream, right?
Or maybe google is going to keep me down since they slapped my blog to 0 before the move.
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