Hosted blogs and google rank
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Good evening friends.
In another thread I read about hosted blogs which are the only solution for whoever wants to have ads in his blog. However, in the same thread I read this:
Your present WP.com blog will not be affected by the change. But, basically, you will have to start over. All your popularity and ranking will be lost, and so will your pagerank, because what you’re doing is starting a new blog. The only way to get around this is to use the Domain Name upgrade and then the pagerank, etc accruing to THAT new domain name will be transferable
Can anyone please shed some light on this? Right now, my blog ranks very high in google and it’s hosted at wordpress.com of course. If I decide to opt for paid hosting:
1. Will I be able to import my existing blog to it?
2. Will I still be getting high rankings or not, since it won’t be hosted at WP.com anymore? And if not, would tbe domain upgrade work for me? Today I purchased a domain so I already have one.Thank you.
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It’s pretty self-explanatory. The blog rank accrues to the blog url. So the earlier in a blog’s life you use domain mapping, i.e., domain.com versus blog.wordpress.com, the better off you are when you move to self-hosting.
You can export your blog here and import it to the new site.
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By the way, it took me a number of months to get by Google page rank back (I think it was 7 months) once I switched to domain mapping. Others have had it happen more quickly.
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Hi Vivian.
Thank you for the quick reply. So basically I will no longer be ranked high in Google if I understand well, correct and it will happen again in 6 months.
If that’s the case, you advise I switch to self-hosting in early 2009?
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It’s not the self-hosting that’s the problem, if you are concerned about page rank. It’s the domain. The sooner you switch the domain, the better. If you stay here, I’d advise spending the $10 for domain mapping ASAP. After doing that, it doesn’t matter when you go to self-hosting.
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I already purchased the domain for the mapping feature and now I have two URLs:
http://gunninghawk.wordpress.com/ (forwarding to the .com one)
and
http://www.thegunninghawk.com/What I’m concerned about is indeed page rank and really puzzled about it. What will Google spider? My blog under the wordpress.com domain or the .com one, or both? :)
Thanks!
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If you move your blog off WP.com you will lose access to the global tag and category pages and this will have a huge effect on your googlejuice.
Google is intelligent enough to recognize domain mapping after a certain time; Technorati is not. Google will spider both URLs while both are active, which means while you’re at WP.com.
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Thanks raincoaster, very kind.
So the day I leave WP.com for self-hosting, I’ll be on my own.
I understand.
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