Blogger Magic - Custom Domain Publishing Too Search Engine Reputation

There's a lot of confusion seen inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, virtually our blogs, together with how they are treated past times the search engines, later on beingness published to a custom domain URL.

Does the Page Rank transfer to the novel domain?

and

Is the weblog automatically indexed later on the change?

and

Will my readers last able to honor my weblog later on the change?

Each of those questions has a elementary answer - but each elementary answer leads to interesting detail.

The basic facts to consider are quite simple.

• Search engines index our blogs, together with calculate page rank, past times domain / subdomain URL. Better search engine reputation leads to better search listing placement, together with to a greater extent than traffic.
• When you lot give away the weblog to a custom domain, you lot are giving it a novel URL.
• With the weblog published to a novel URL, it has no page rank, together with is non indexed.

So, the immediate answer is reasonably simple.

Like a novel blog, together with similar a weblog renamed inside BlogSpot, a weblog newly published to a custom domain has Zero page rank, together with is non indexed.

Now, expect at the details.

• Unlike a completely novel blog, a weblog newly published to a custom domain has reputation, inwards the minds - together with links inwards the blogs - of the readers.
• Unlike a completely novel blog, in that location is an existing BlogSpot weblog that is indexed, has search engine reputation, together with right away links to the domain URL.
• Unlike a weblog renamed inside BlogSpot, a weblog published to a custom domain has a DNS based redirect, from the BlogSpot URL, to the domain URL.
• Unlike a weblog published to BlogSpot, a weblog published to a custom domain may bring closed to value precisely because of the non BlogSpot URL.

And hither is where the magic starts.

When you lot combine the assets, held past times the BlogSpot URL

• Links, inwards our readers blogs.
• Reputation, inwards our readers minds.
• Reputation, inwards the search engines.

with the DNS based redirect - applied against a properly setup domain, together with using a proper complement of sitemaps - you lot instruct a weblog which acquires indexing together with page rank from the existing reputation of the erstwhile BlogSpot URL, every bit that BlogSpot URL, together with our readers blogs, are beingness re indexed. And, there is the magic.

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