I have mentioned previously on my blog why it is better to have a custom domain than to have your blog hosted on blogger, or one of the other free blogs. This is especially true if you want to monetize your blog. If you use Pay Per Post you will see many opportunities that say specifically they don’t want their post on a free blog site blog. This is true of other pay services as well. The Lady Programmer does a really good job of explaining how to convert from your free blog domain to a custom blog domain.
I would encourage everyone thinking about doing this to click on the custom domain link at the top and reading her blog. In addition to creating your own custom domain make sure you use http://www.yourdomain.com don’t use http://yourdomain.com. Damien Riley and myself have talked in our blogs why you should always prefix your domain with www, as this sets the protocol and many firewalls and filters will block sites that don’t have www in front of them. This can be seen as phishing attempts and most users expect and are wary of not seeing the www in front of a URL. It is easy to configure your website to only accept and redirect http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com but do it early, as your blog will suffer some link loss and a Google Page Rank hit until the links catch up if you change it on an established blog.
-Dragon Blogger
Related posts:
- Claiming Your Domain With Twittley The Twittley team contacted me and mentioned that you should claim your domain with Twittley if you use the plug-in...
- Blog Link Backs – Some Interesting Things I Discovered I was experimenting with wondering why I when my fellow blogger’s Linkback to my website, I don’t see the Linkback...
- Dragon Bloggers Tips for Starting a New Blog or Your First Blog I am learning each and every day about blogging, I have been blogging since June 2008 with my first blog,...
- Received An I Love Your Blog Award So I open my email and blog this morning to see that Dani from Mumsy [at] little-miss.org nominated Dragon Blogger...
- Egypt applies for Domain Name in Arabic ICANN opened up web domain names to non Latin languages inviting countries to register DNS names in foreign languages....
| via FaceBook, Twitter, RSS or Email |  |
Enter your email and subscribe now!
Tags: Better Blogging, blog, blog custom domains, Blog Links, blog sites, Blog Techniques, blog tricks, build a better blog, Custom Domain, damien riley, dragon blogger, dragonblogger, running a blog, starting a blog, The Lady Programmer, wordpress
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Yes folks, be fore-warned! The www prefix, also referred to in the industry as a “canonical www,” is the most likely to be accepted by phishing filters. For this reason, you should make all your links www and create an .htaccess forward from the non www to the www. Thanks for this post Justin!
[Reply]
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
hi bro Dragon, would you like to xchang3 l1nks with me? Thank you so much
Drunken Dragons last blog post..How To Test a Boat
[Reply]
November 15th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Hey Dragon thanks for this info. 99% of my domain names do not have the www prefix. I was made to believe that domains without the www prefix are a good practice for SEO reasons. I will take your advice and also do some tests to see if it reaaly counts.
[Reply]