Bloggerの習慣の範囲

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• Paula Mooney // Feb 23, 2007 at 6:33 pm

  God bless you! God bless you! God bless you!

  This is exactly what I’ve been looking to do, without all that other hassle.

  I’m going to try it your way, I believe.

  But how exactly did you edit your “htaccess file and add some rewrites to make bookmarks from individual posts work” ?

  And ScienceText.com was a WordPress.com site already right?

  Hosted by whom?

  I really want to know everything before I do this…

  Thank you so much!
  Paula

• Paula Mooney // Feb 23, 2007 at 6:38 pm

  Oh yeah, and was there any down time between all these steps?

  And what do you mean Blogger 2? I already upgraded to the new Blogger Beta which is just the new Blogger now. Is that what you mean?

  And are your Google Adsense ads paying better since the switch like other people are saying theirs are?

  Or at least one did, the other said his ads are more “intuiative”…

• David Bradley // Feb 23, 2007 at 10:35 pm

  Yes, I’m referrring to the new blogger. Sciencetext.com was a standalone domain I owned with a static site previously that I upgraded to Wordpress and then transferred the old Sig Fig files…

  I didn’t get round to the .htaccess messing, but it’s on the web and not hard to do.

  As to adsense, I didn’t have adsense on the old blogspot site, so nothing to compare with, not sure what that intuitive thang is either.

  Good luck

  db

  PS You need to tidy up your layout, it’s all shoved over to the right in Firefox

• Paula Mooney // Mar 3, 2007 at 1:52 pm

  Thanks. I changed my blogger template to a cleaner one.

  Is it still shoved over on Firefox or does it look better now?

  Paula

• ilker // Mar 3, 2007 at 4:45 pm

  This is interesting.. will refer to it in the future!

• David Bradley // Mar 21, 2007 at 8:20 pm

  This popular Sciencetext post is getting a lot of commentary from other blogs, particular blogspot blogs where users are discussing how to break free and relocate to their own domains.

  As far as I know, what I suggest here is perfectly legal. Google new Blogger offers users the option to host their blogs on their own domain and provides the tools to do a 301 redirect to the new hosting so that all kudos (pagerank) is carried over from the old blogspot domain to the new hosted domain. All I’ve done here is to host the actual files on my own server and to 301 redirect to the index on that new hosted domain from my old blogspot address. I’m actually doing Google a favor by covering the hosting costs they would otherwise have to pay for, surely? More to the point, they still get to have the pleasure of this blog appearing in their index.

  What’s the difference between doing this and doing the old hosting like you could before, except the files now point to my own domain instead of a blogspot sub-domain.

• Vinay // Mar 30, 2007 at 3:15 am

  Great post. Yesterday i registered a new domain name and was very excited to move my blogspot blog there. but soon I realized that I will loose the PR and those 50 thousand backlinks I generated over a period of time. I am talking of huge numbers here and I dont wan’t to lose them by moving to custom domain. Your idea sounds great and investing some money in my own hosting isn’t gonna cost me much.

  However just wanted to clarify a few things. As you said that PR will be maintained. Did you get the same PR? I am sure u got it but just checking.

  What about those backlinks pointing to blogspot address…will they still be maintained?

  Do we need to change google sitemap account to access new domain or keep it on blogspot? Should we delete all the posts once we move to new wordpress hosting?

  I would be grateful if you can answer these questions since you did all yourself. Thanks a ton and wish you good luck with this blog.

• David Bradley // Mar 30, 2007 at 6:16 am

  The backlinks and the PR will follow your redirect. BUT, they take time, months sometimes. You have to make sure you’re clever with the .htaccess rewrites to ensure all old post filenames get ported to the new ones too.

  You had 50000 backlinks to a blogspot blog, why do you want to move and risk losing those if you make a mistake with the rewrite. With that number of backlinks you are probably already making a few thousand a months from text ads, aren’t you? Somehow I get the feeling you’re yanking my crank.

• Mark C // Apr 11, 2007 at 3:26 am

  “Somehow I get the feeling you’re yanking my crank.”

  What’s a crank? lol.

  My baseball blog has plummeted since changing to custom domains. Pagerank 5 to 0, no backlinks. Heck. Google can’t even cache my new address. This is disastrous to say the least. One can only hope that Google fixes these problems.
  :/

• David Bradley // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:27 am

  Give it time Mark C. As long as you did a 301 permanent redirect on the original URL you should be fine. Google takes its time doing updates and presumably you haven’t actually yet lost PR or backlinks on the original URL.

  By the way, a crank, is a handle that provides what one might term rotational leverage around an axis. Cranks are common on machinery that has to be “kick” started (or hand-cranked) to initiate engine turnover.

• Goyal // Apr 17, 2007 at 2:59 pm

  Hi,

  I have a domain name (bought from Google) and a blog on wordpress.

  I want to shift my blog to Blogger and access it at blog.mydomain.com

  Can you please tell me how to do this?

• David Bradley // Apr 17, 2007 at 3:40 pm

  Goyal, this is probably what you need: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=55373&query=domain&topic=&type=f

• Goyal // Apr 18, 2007 at 7:26 am

  Hi David,

  Thanks a lot

  I would be migrating the blog soon.

• David Bradley // Apr 18, 2007 at 7:48 am

  Good luck Goyal, please double check procedures before making the move (don’t rely on this page alone), just to be safe.

• lasilasi // Apr 20, 2007 at 6:46 am

  i am looking at switching to custom domain, since blogger has got this new (and looks like easy to use) feature. After purchasing lasilasi.com from godady, I edited the cname’s host:’www’ and point to:’@’ to ‘ghs.google.com’. Next, i go to ‘publishing’ in blogger and filled in lasilasi.com as the custom domain.

  Then when I typed in lasilasi.blogspot.com, i successfully got directed to lasilasi.com. However, the blog content is not there (which therefore I switched back to blogger). There’s no description that shows that I need any other settings - i googgled on it and found yr blog entry that explain setting up wordpress to import blogger blog. Hmm word press - havent used before - i wonder would it be time consuming to learn/use it - and is it really necessary? Also, if I use word press, would i still be creating post from blogger’s interface or from wordpress?

  Please enlighten me… I hope I can switch to lasilasi.com soon! i tried having ‘quick blog’ set up with godaddy. there’s an option that says ‘import entries’ however, when i need to key in the ‘URL of RSS feed’ (ichose Generic RSS - there’s typepad etc other options too) i m not sure what to key in - i tried with lasilasi.blogspot.com and doesnt work (obviously). I’ve feedburner but when i key in http://feeds.feedburner.com/Lasilasi it doesnt work either.

  Pls help. thanks very very much!

• David Bradley // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:45 am

  Lim

  I’m not sure I follow what you’ve done wrong. Google is quite explicit in its instructions. You can either host the files on Blogspot and have the blog point to your new domain or else publish the blog via FTP settings in Blogspot to the new domain, which means you will need to actually upload the files to your new host. If you don’t then there’s basically nothing there for you to see. Check back with the Blogspot FAQ again for more info.

  My original post is about 301 redirecting from an old Blogspot blog to a domain running different blogging software. It’s irrelevant that I happen to use Wordpress. You could if you wanted redirect a blogspot address to a simple static page, doesn’t even have to be a blog.

• lasilasi // Apr 21, 2007 at 8:20 am

  thanks for the reply - i m much clearer now =)

• David Bradley // May 1, 2007 at 2:08 pm

  Quick update: In the most recent pagerank dance on the Google data centers, Sciencetext suddenly leaped from a whitebar site to a PR5. The old Blogspot version of the site only ever made it to PR4, so that’s pretty encouraging and should help persuade others of the value of switching to their own domain and 301′ing their old blog to the new domain.

• Scott Warheit // May 4, 2007 at 6:19 am

  This is a great help. I recently started a Blog on Blogger, and get a decent amount of traffic (at least for a new, small blog like mine) from Google, where some of my posts are in decent spots. A few days ago I purchased a domain, wanting to forward the Blogger blog to that domain, while remaining hosted on Blogger. I’ve searched all around the internet trying to find out whether doing so would wipe my Google listings out for my Blogger address out of existence, but according to this post/thread, I shouldn’t worry, right? By using the Blogger custom domain option, it’ll ensure the listing aren’t negatively affected by the move, right? I know Blogger seemlessly forwards the links/traffic to the new domain, but I was worried about losing the Google listings.

  Thanks a lot for the help.

  -Scott

• David Bradley // May 4, 2007 at 7:47 am

  Nothing is guaranteed in this life Scott, but see my comment dated May 1 for the results I have seen. It took maybe three months and the April PR update for rank to migrate from my old Blogspot blog to this domain, but it worked. Another pertinent aphorism - good things come to those who wait and a rolling bird in the bush is worth two in the bed, not in this game.

• Vin // May 7, 2007 at 3:21 am

  Hi,
  Got the answers to the other questions. Only one last question :
  What would be the ideal host in terms of optimizing costs with the
  facilities offered?

  Cheers.

• David Bradley // May 7, 2007 at 9:15 am

  Vin, I think you’d have to check the PC magazines and sites for comparison tables of hosting companies in your country. I use various hosts for different sites. All have their pros and cons.

• David Bradley // May 16, 2007 at 10:44 am

  The latest release - 2.2 (on 2007-05-15) of the Wordpress blogging software has several new features, such as built in widgets, but of most interest to readers of this post, it has an improved Blogger Blogspot import system.

  The new Blogger importer can handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.

• Rahul Bansal // Jun 19, 2007 at 2:42 pm

  I got following error after I imported my old blogspot to new address and wordpress platform!
  “Another blog is already hosted at this
  address!”

  I am using META tags to 301 permanant redirect!
  But this is to let u know that u can’t perform step4 in the end!

• David Bradley // Jun 19, 2007 at 3:54 pm

  Rahul, I didn’t anticipate anyone trying to import a blog into a blog that already exists…that doesn’t make sense, does it? The thing is, you see, I did the steps my self for this site and it worked just fine.

  Incidentally, you cannot use a meta tag to do a 301 redirect. A 301 redirect has to be done from the blogspot tab that points to your new domain.

• palinn // Jul 13, 2007 at 7:03 am

  Hi David,
  Any idea if we have to resubmit our new site url to google analytics, sitemaps, yahoo, technorati, and all the others.

  Cheers.

• David Bradley // Jul 13, 2007 at 7:39 am

  If you’ve done a 301 redirect you shouldn’t have to, no. If you resubmit to technorati you will end up with duplicated entries, for instance. It might be worth editing your Analytics settings to refer to the new URL, and I would probably redo your sitemap and resubmit to Google/Yahoo. But, I don’t think any of that is essential. Anyone else disagree?

• SEO guy // Sep 4, 2007 at 7:54 pm

  One of the main reasons to get off blogger is that it gives you no control over your title. title is critical to seo

• Zaldy // Oct 6, 2007 at 9:47 am

  I read your post about using custom domain..and I agree in all that you’ve said..

  2 months back I moved my Blogspot blog to my own domain http://www.ofwlayf.com but until now..(2 months later) my custom domain page rank is still 0,

  am I missing something?.. please advice..

  I’d appreciate your attention, thanks much in advance,

  best regards,
  zaldy agustin

• David Bradley // Oct 6, 2007 at 9:49 am

  Zaldy, there hasn’t been a Google pagerank update for months, and Google staffer Matt Cutts reckons it won’t happen for weeks yet, so be patient and you’ll probably see the date before the end of the year.

• cityslicker mom // Dec 4, 2007 at 9:33 am

  Dear David,

  The lack of your method is, the specific post at the old blogspot will redirect to the main domain address not to the same post with wordpress format. So if we have many specific post/popular post with high traffic from search engine, they will be redirected to the main domain in the new domain. Is that correct? please tell me if I wrong.

  Cheers
  Cityslicker Mom

• David Bradley // Dec 4, 2007 at 2:00 pm

  Yes, I kind of glossed over that. There is a way to make it work for each individual post using .htaccess redirects on your host page. I did it for category folders but the previous version of this blog was not particular big and despite being reviewed by Guardian Unlimited and New Scientist in the past had few backlinks until more recently.

• dunn // Dec 8, 2007 at 5:28 pm

  Hi David.
  How about the pictures in the post? When we import post from blogger to wordpress, do the pictures will upload together with the post to wordpress? Or we have to move it manually one by one?
  Cheers.. dunn,

• David Bradley // Dec 9, 2007 at 1:02 pm

  Good point Dunn, yes, you’re going to have to ftp your photos

  d

• dunn // Dec 14, 2007 at 6:23 am

  hi david, it’s me again. i still have one more question.
  since my site have lots of pictures, and i think it’s impossible for me to ftp all the pics (one by one) by one day, what would it show during the process? can i just lead the visitor to my site host by blogger (but using own domain already) until i finish ftp all the pics? (btw i’ve been using own domain but still hosted by blogger for the past year). any suggestion for me? thank’s in advance, david.

• David Bradley // Dec 14, 2007 at 6:41 am

  Dunn, you could point the URLs for the images on the new hosted site to the old blogger domain URLs. But, check that this doesn’t break T&Cs first and that hotlinking is allowed.

  db

• analogstuff // Feb 4, 2008 at 7:41 am

  I have recently moved my blog from http://analogstuff.blogspot.com to http://analogstuff.net.

  I have hosted my new URL at Blogspot and got the domain at Yahoo. I feel yahoo and google did a great job. I just could finish the job in 30 min. Now all the links in the blog have been changed to the new URL. I dont know about loosing page rank etc.. But one thing i can say that i lost considerable traffic after i shifted from blogspot URL to custom URL.

  analogstuff’s last blog post..Plastic Surgery

• David Bradley // Feb 4, 2008 at 8:10 am

  analogstuff, you did redirect your blogspot blog to your new custom domain didn’t you? I cannot see why you would have lost traffic unless you’d failed to do that.

  db

• Manuel // Feb 10, 2008 at 5:42 am

  I changed my blogspot with my own domain,
  from http://bajaenergy.blospot.com to http://blog.bajaenergy.com , but I LOST my PR4. So, I undertand (after read you), google/blogger going to put me my old PR4 in my new own domain. Some weeks or months? not years … I hope

  Manuel’s last blog post..FRANCE: Francois Fillon to visit Japan for nuclear talks

• David Bradley // Feb 11, 2008 at 3:21 pm

  There are no guarantees, it could be a couple of months, it may never happen. Thing you should be proud of is that you’re now on your own domain!

  db

• Dunn // Mar 23, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  Hi David! I just transfered my site from Blogger to self hosted. Already installed Wordpress, widgets, etc. The homepage already views correctly, with the new WP theme. But when I clicked individual post, it viewed using the blogger theme. Already asked help from the hosting transfers team, and seemed like they don’t know how to fix this either. Is anyone have ever face this problem before? Or does anyone know how to fix this? Please help.

• David Bradley // Mar 23, 2008 at 8:19 pm

  Dunn, sounds like a caching issue. Do a Ctrl-F5 of a Ctrl-Shift-R. Failing that, clear your browser cache via options.

  Where are the links in posts, archives and from homepage actually pointing? Did you update your .htaccess to redirect properly?

  db

• Dunn // Mar 24, 2008 at 5:41 pm

  I had done what you asked, but it didn’t help. And I dont understand about .htaccess. I had sent email to you to explain my situation, I hope you don’t mind.

  Dunn’s last blog post..School in a Cave

• David Bradley // Mar 24, 2008 at 7:30 pm

  Dunn - do a quick google on “.htaccess”, you’ll find out all kinds of useful stuff.

  db

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