None of your page rank or traffic tranfers to your own
domain.
If your 80 years old I see your point. But even if your in
your 50's
and you intend on blogging till your 80, then you will
produce more
value with your own domain in 30 years by starting from
scratch.
Thats my opinion and it's purely theoretical. I just know
that every
interview I have read with professional bloggers they have
said that
their single biggest mistake was not setting up their own
domain
sooner.
Its the same economic principals as owning a home - its
always better
to buy than rent. Long term vaue is key. However, I myself
am I
renter because I hate dealing with owning a home. It all
comes down
to what your comfortable with.
For instance, instead of setting up my own social network
for my blog
on my own domain I use ning.com and link to it from my
domain. I just
don't have the time to deal with administerting and
customising an
open source social network like phpizabi on my own domain.
You may
also not have the inclincation or time to deal with setting
up
wordpress yourself. Thats why I recommended godaddy because
they do a
great job with autoinstall of wordpress.
Anway, best of luck with your blog and congrats on the good
pageranks
so far.
On Nov 5, 9:45 am, enviroman <enviro... gmail.com> wrote:
> OK I don't ever claim to be a know all and I can see
your point. Just
> that perhaps our aim are different. I wasn't aiming to
become a
> millionaire, but becoming one is not going to hurt
me.My aim then was
> getting income to help me put my 2 sons through
college. And I don't
> want the bother of having to renew anything because one
day, I will
> not be around to renew them anymore, but my blog if I
use blogspot.com
> will still be on the web. And AdSense has already told
me that it is
> possible for the Payee name to be changed, so if I
should leave all of
> you behind to go to a better place, my beneficiaries
can continue to
> enjoy whatever income that may still come from my
blogs.
>
> However, non of my children has indicated any interest
in taking over
> from me. So perhaps using custom domain may be a good
idea as with no
> updates, slowly the blogs will get less traffic from
search engines..
> Whenever I get a question about problems with custom
domains, I
> normally plea no practical experience and refer them
elsewhere.
>
> Now I like to think of myself as a life long learner,
willing to learn
> from any sources. What I would like to know is, if I
ever decide to
> use custom domain, will my PageRank transfer over or do
I have to
> start from scratch again?
>
> I know Blogger will redirect traffic to my blogspot.com
blog to the
> new domain, but will Blogger redirect links to
individual posts. If
> they don't, that will be a major problem because there
are lots of
> links to individual posts.
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