Google Girl feature article

[Century Man]

The google girl is featured in the Construction Marketing Ideas (http://constructionmarketingideas.blogspot.com/) blog yesterday with a mention of the Remodel Crazy (http://www.remodelcrazy.com) forum.

[Silvertree]

Good article about Google Girl:)

[ChrWright]

That site makes my browser hang up...:censored:

And the link to her LinkedIn page is wrong... comes up Page Not Found.

[GoogleGirl]

Remodel Crazy gets around, so does Google Girl:)

Um, that sounds really bad. I work too damn much to 'get around'. Explains why I'm single, my yard is a disaster and there is nothing edible in my fridge. (Partially b/c the light keeps burning out and I can't see what is in there.)

A friend told me last night that I need to get married to have a man take care of those things.

Great. A house husband. (rolling eyes)

[GoogleGirl]

The google girl is featured in the Construction Marketing Ideas (http://constructionmarketingideas.blogspot.com/) blog yesterday with a mention of the Remodel Crazy (http://www.remodelcrazy.com) forum.

Had a blast talking to Mark... Hopefully I can continue to educate folks. Sorta like Johnny Appleseed - spreading little droppings of Internet marketing knowledge across the country...

[Silvertree]

Changed my post, didn't make the connection at first

[Publisher1]

Some people are saying I should bite the bullet and just move to wordpress -- might speed up the responsiveness of the blog. But I fear I will need to write two separate posts each day for quite a while, one on Wordpress and the other on blogger, and even for me, that is a lot of writing!

[Silvertree]

I don't know Mark, I talked to you the other day and you got at least 4 articles a day in you:grin:

[Len]

Some people are saying I should bite the bullet and just move to wordpress -- might speed up the responsiveness of the blog. But I fear I will need to write two separate posts each day for quite a while, one on Wordpress and the other on blogger, and even for me, that is a lot of writing!


Wordpress - Blogger That is not your biggest obstacle. Wordpress can import from Blogger and Blogger can post to a domain. Not a big deal.

Not having the content on your own domain (Example.com) is the biggest challenge. All the backlinks (1,664) you have built do not point to a domain you control. Making it difficult to correctly redirect those to a domain where the content will actually reside. Blogger may have some tools for this, it's been a while since I did anything major with Blogger.

Lesson for the rest of you tempted by a free hosted site. At least get your own domain name to use. Then when you switch services, hosting or publishing service all your content still has the same address.
example.com/mycontent
not
example.Wordpress.com or example.blogpot.com

[Century Man]

Wordpress - Blogger That is not your biggest obstacle. Wordpress can import from Blogger and Blogger can post to a domain. Not a big deal.

Not having the content on your own domain (Example.com) is the biggest challenge. All the backlinks (1,664) you have built do not point to a domain you control. Making it difficult to correctly redirect those to a domain where the content will actually reside. Blogger may have some tools for this, it's been a while since I did anything major with Blogger.

Lesson for the rest of you tempted by a free hosted site. At least get your own domain name to use. Then when you switch services, hosting or publishing service all your content still has the same address.
example.com/mycontent
not
example.Wordpress.com or example.blogpot.com


I'm not quite following you here. My blog is fairwd.blogspot.com. What would you recommend in my example?

Ned

[Eieio]

I'm not quite following you here. My blog is fairwd.blogspot.com. What would you recommend in my example?

Ned

Ned I am guessing not having the blog embedded into your website? I am confused a bit too?

[Mike(VA)]

I think he means, (I love jumping in) is that you don't own fairwd.blogspot.com. All backlinks you have point to that. If you move to another site, you lose all value of backlinks unless you can redirect them and if you have thousands, that's a lot of work. If your site was, for example, fairwd.com/myblog, eveything that comes to your site would move when you point your site to another place. This coming from a guy who can't figure out how to adjust his tabs in FF. Ha, ha.

[Len]

I think he means, (I love jumping in) is that you don't own fairwd.blogspot.com. All backlinks you have point to that. If you move to another site, you lose all value of backlinks unless you can redirect them and if you have thousands, that's a lot of work. If your site was, for example, fairwd.com/myblog, eveything that comes to your site would move when you point your site to another place. This coming from a guy who can't figure out how to adjust his tabs in FF. Ha, ha.


Yes that pretty much sums it up.
Your content is at blogspot.com, every backlink you get points to name.blogspot.com/your article

While you can get your content out, every link to a specific article may be lost.
E.g. if you post a link in this forum to an article on your blog, say http://fairwd.blogspot.com/2009/07/roofing.html, when you change services the new article link will be something like http://fairwd.com/blog/2009/07/roofing.html.

Now when Google comes across the original link, and comes up with a 404 error page that backlink 'credit' will be removed and and SEO rank will decline.
You may never get that backlink back because if it's posted in this forum somewhere, chances are no one is going to come and correct the post to reflect the new link location.

People move content on the web. How do they deal with this?
301 redirect. This normally can redirect traffic to the new location, and 301 indicates a permanent location to Google so they can update their index.

The issue. Since you don't own blogspot.com, you will only have the tools they allow for redirection. This may or may not be adequate, I don't know. I haven't dug into blogger tools for a while.

Since you already own fairwd.com there is no reason you can't start publishing to this right away. Blogger allows you to ftp the publishing. This means you can change that setting and publish directly to http://fairwd.com/blog/ or similar. By doing this, if you ever decide to stop using blogger, your content is already at fairwd.com/blog/.