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[Pamela]

hi all-

for a client that already has a blog hosted on blogspot, and an ecommerce site on a separate domain, would it be advantageous to the ecommerce (main) site to move the blog so that it is hosted on the domain (i.e. moving it from blahblah.blogspot.com to blablah.com/blog) ?? what would be some of the repercussions either way?

In general i thought it was better to have the blog on a subdirectory of the main site so that all content updates are under the same domain.

However, this client has some search listings in searches for some of their products where the main site AND the blogspot blog are coming up, which shows the advantage of the opposite of my thought above.. (I don't currently have any traffic data for either.)

If we did move the blog, would current search results be negatively affected? I tested and I see that blogspot automatically adds a 301 redirect, but when i do a redirect check, it says it's redirected from "blahblah.blogspot.com" to "blahblah.blogspot.com" so i don't think it's a REAL redirect to blahblah.com/blog that would pass value from an SEO perspective.

Thoughts?

Thanks for any input!
Pam

[Jill]

I would move it not for SEO purposes, but because blogspot can decide to remove it all together any time they want if they host it. And they do that for no reason.

[Pamela]

I would move it not for SEO purposes, but because blogspot can decide to remove it all together any time they want if they host it. And they do that for no reason.

Thanks a lot for your reply Jill. Have you experienced this or heard of it happening to anyone with a blogspot hosted blog?

Also, if it's still a blogger blog, but hosted elsewhere, can they still remove it anytime they want?

~Pam

[Jill]

Yes, it happened to my sister, in fact. Hers was gone for a few months. They claimed it was spam, but it was just a regular business blog.

Also, if it's still a blogger blog, but hosted elsewhere, can they still remove it anytime they want?

They could remove your account, but if everything is on your own server, they can't touch that.

[Pamela]

thanks jill!

[akaplan]

>I would move it not for SEO purposes, but because blogspot can decide to remove it all together any time

Is this advice limited to blogs on blogspot, or should people with blogs on wordpress consider moving them also.

[Jill]

akaplan, I don't have an direct experience with those on WordPress's server, but I would worry about it. It just seems silly to allow others to host your content if you don't have to.