Because I had to – no doubt about that!
The story goes like:
I still have a number of blogs in blogspot. I had been really very enthusiastic about the new blogger and I am there for last seven months or so.
In one beautiful morning I suddenly found that my blog is not being indexed by Google crawler – she is resting in peace there in the supplement box!
I really worked hard and never went out for any black hat SEO technique or link building bait for my blog. I know some of the practices to bring a site up in search engine result pages like you but I wanted to be honest with my blog!
I wanted to see people link to me normally and only if they wish to! No one on earth got a link request from me – no doubt about that.
My blog had no duplicate content – Copyscape told me that over and over again.
My blog had very few link-back – (now what can I do about it! My blog is comparatively new in the arena and dealt in a very competitive field)
Search for solution:
A looked here and there for a solution – no one could give me any (free blogs are different from websites and personal blogs – you don’t have total control over it).
What I found out!
The problem is called canonical issue – and blogspot users have it in them by default.
http://www.mysite.blogspot.com and http://mysite.blogspot.com will show you the same web page though Mr. Google Robot will treat them as two different web pages and of course as two different URLs with same web content.
I also tried to change http://mysite.blogspot.com to http://www.mysite.blogspot.com but Blogspot will not allow you to have it that way.
During the time I looked around some renowned blogs using Blogger platform with more than 5 page rank. But they also have the same problem – both the URLs are present in Google index and they show different page rank.
If there had not been any such canonical issues – why would the same web page show two different page ranks – if one is 6 the other is 2 or any thing on earth!
Another thing I noticed:
If you click a link (say, a post title or a label) from http://www.mysite.blogspot.com the page would open like http://mysite.blogspot.com/2007/06/post-title.html – that means without www.
What is the solution?
This situation calls for 301 permanent redirection. But to do this, you need total control over your blog. Sorry, you don’t have it!
Why I selected WordPress!
WordPress do not have that problem – Blogsome too is free of this problem (but I have doubt if Blogsome have permanent redirection or not – see for yourself!)
Filed under: Blogging Tips, Google, SEO and SEO Strategy | Tagged: Blogging Tips
With all the ‘buyouts’ by bigger companies, you can’t trust your content for the next six months to be there if you go with being ‘hosted’. I was able to pick up an account with my existing ISP for under 10 USD a year…unlimited EVERYTHING! I serve my site Homeless In Jax is on.
WordPress is a good starting point for serious bloggers to go to the next level. Just look around for a decent Content Management System (CMS) to use on your own URL. You can always copy over all your entries, and with a little coding make a universal link that’s in all your old entries to link to your ‘newer’ copies on your own hosted site. I’m considering on doing this in the future for continuity, as well as seeing how much PR I can carry over to the new one.
That is some very good reasons.
its indeed a problem. WordPress is more easy and search engine friendly than blogspot.
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