Following In Addition To Custom Domain Migration

Many weblog owners, mindful of the diverse ongoing migration of their weblog to a custom domain. Various anxious questions virtually Following, as well as custom domain publishing, are seen from fourth dimension to time, inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?.

Can I setup custom domain publishing, without losing my Followers?

This is 1 trace organization where the perception is much worse than the reality.

The Following concept involves 2 services.

1. The links betwixt your Followers profiles, as well as your blog.
2. The newsfeed ("Atom" / "RSS") subscription setup for each of your Followers.

Your Followers profile human relationship is against your blog, using its BlogID. As long every bit yous produce non switch to publishing a unlike weblog (with a novel BlogID), the Followers profile human relationship amongst your weblog volition stay intact. This is the illustration for both a normal renaming of the weblog (BlogSpot to BlogSpot URL change), every bit for a custom domain publishing (BlogSpot to non BlogSpot URL change).

Your Followers subscription human relationship is against the URL of your blog. Since a custom domain publishing involves forwarding of the BlogSpot URL, to the domain URL, the subscription human relationship volition stay intact, subsequently the migration procedure is complete. H5N1 BlogSpot to BlogSpot URL alter may involve some seek yesteryear you to retain the subscription relationship; this does non postulate to last done, for a BlogSpot to domain publishing change.

You volition postulate to banknote the custom domain transition period, which affects Following. There are portions of the Followers database which produce postulate to last separately updated, yesteryear Blogger, subsequently the Transition catamenia is complete. During Transition, yous should facial expression to come across your Followers gadget temporarily unavailable. Shortly subsequently Transition ends, your Followers gadget should last updated, as well as it volition resume functioning - as well as your novel readers volition last able to Follow your blog, amongst no concern.

Other than during the iii to 4 twenty-four hr catamenia Transition period, your Followers should facial expression to come across no problems, inwards whatsoever relationships amongst your blog. As always, I'll only suggest yous to manage the migration, for whatsoever custom domain change.

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Before Publishing Dorsum To Blogspot, Become The Dns Addresses Right

One problem, occasionally seen inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, involves spider web log owners preparing to re role their custom domain for publishing their website - together with who instantly involve to issue their Blogger spider web log dorsum to BlogSpot.

I involve to reuse my domain for my website - only when I travail to re issue my blog, I hold seeing

Another spider web log is already hosted at this address.

How tin I larn my spider web log dorsum online?

When nosotros expect at the domain, together with the DNS addresses, nosotros run into the domain pointing to the website, already. And this is where many custom domain publishing problems start.

Any fourth dimension yous brand whatever alter to a blog, that involves custom domain publishing, the changes volition become much to a greater extent than smoothly amongst the domain properly pointing to the blog.

Whether yous are setting upwards a novel custom domain publishing, changing a custom domain publishing, or perhaps removing a custom domain publishing, the publishing procedure plant much meliorate amongst the domain properly redirected to the Google database.

One of the causes of the mysterious message

Another spider web log is already hosted at this address

comes from the domain non beingness properly redirected to the Google servers. When the Blogger re publishing procedure can't conk on because the domain DNS addresses are non correct, the procedure terminates amongst an error. Whenever whatever database alter terminates amongst an error, it's e'er possible that the procedure may non build clean upwards afterward itself earlier ending - together with artifacts (aka broken pointers) volition live on left behind inwards the database.

The side past times side fourth dimension that yous travail to re issue the spider web log - or when yous (or your readers) travail to stance the spider web log - yous (or they) volition see, notwithstanding again

Another spider web log is already hosted at this address.

or an alternate

Server Not Found Error 404

When that happens, yous accept alone 1 alternative - recycle the domain settings - together with pray to the deity of your choice.

The latter processes are non known to live on 100% effective. The best way to bargain amongst them is to never bargain amongst them - to non start past times causing a problem. That agency to e'er hold the domain DNS addresses righteous, whenever maintaining a custom domain published blog.

If yous are going to role your domain for a non Blogger website, e'er publish your Blogger spider web log dorsum to BlogSpot, first. Then, verify the condition of the blog. Finally, together with amongst no problems discovered, alter the DNS addresses.

Custom Domain Publishing As Well As Abandoned Blogs

We've been exploring the issues of Custom Domain Publishing for many years. The work of custom domain database corruption, equally good known as

Another weblog is already hosted at this address.

is i of the nigh ordinarily observed symptoms, alongside custom domain publishing problems.

The nigh mutual crusade of the "Another weblog ..." symptom is broken database pointers. In the past, the broken pointers bring been associated alongside diverse Google Apps controlled services.

• Ad Services.
• Google Sites.
• Start Page.

Now that Custom Domain Publishing is a mature characteristic inward Blogger, there's a newly seen trend, inward problems reported inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.

• Blogger Blogs.

Ever since nosotros started systematically diagnosing problems alongside custom domain publishing, as well as learned how to assail the nigh mutual problem, the "Another weblog ..." symptom, we've learned to piece of work an HTTP trace, as well as noted the many redirects to diverse services, inward the domain database, that are controlled past times Google Apps.

Now that Blogger has been using custom domain publishing for many years, we're starting to run across a novel tendency inward broken database pointers - Blogger blogs. Just equally abandoned Blogger blogs are becoming a normal observation inward general, as well as hence are abandoned Blogger blogs, published to custom domains.

Abandoned Blogger blogs are slowly plenty to diagnose - as well as similarly easy plenty to treat.

Blogger accounts, as well as BlogSpot addresses, create non expire.

The solution is simple.

Pick around other BlogSpot URL, as well as expose to that URL.

Custom domain URLs, however, should non endure treated that way.

If yous purchase a domain - whether using "Buy a domain", or straight from a registrar of your pick - yous facial expression that yous should endure able to piece of work that domain alongside whatsoever Blogger weblog that yous may already ain - regardless of whether around other Blogger weblog possessor has previously used that domain alongside around other Blogger blog. If yous ain a weblog which is instantly broken, because of a Google database work - as well as yous are stressed plenty over the URL alter - how create yous bargain alongside the domain existence broken, earlier yous tin laissez passer on notice fifty-fifty showtime to get the weblog re indexed?

Unfortunately, differing from Ad Services, Sites, as well as Start Page, at that spot is no Google Apps desktop sorcerer that lets yous reset your registered domain, as well as clear a previously published - as well as abandoned - Blogger weblog redirection.

As Blogger blogs - as well as custom domain publishing - becomes a to a greater extent than ordinarily used as well as abandoned service, this is going to expire a progressively to a greater extent than mutual scenario.

My custom domain is already published - to around other Blogger blog! Help!

And a to a greater extent than immediate as well as reliable solution needs to endure developed, than submitting a "Magical" Custom Domain Reset request.

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(Update 2012/09/18): Blogger has provided domain ownership verification, equally business office of the domain setup. This solution has, predictably, provided new frustrations.

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New Custom Domains Inwards Transition As Well As Diverse Weblog Gadgets

About a twelvemonth afterward Blogger introduced custom domain publishing, they segmented the custom domain publishing process.

In social club to avoid database corruption, which was a frequent drive of the "Another spider web log ..." problem, they introduced a delay period, which we telephone weep upward "Transition". Transition lets them delay telephone substitution spider web log updates - until the the world broad DNS infrastructure has a jeopardy to reliably update amongst information almost whatsoever novel Google custom domains.

In the beginning, Transition lasted almost precisely 72 hours, in addition to delayed creation of the "301 Moved Permanently" redirect from the BlogSpot to domain URL. Later, when Following became a fixture on most blogs, nosotros observed that the Followers gadget was every bit good beingness updated on a Transition based delay.

The Followers gadget is non the solely accessory that references the spider web log URL - in addition to recently, nosotros observed that to a greater extent than features are dependent area to Transition based update delays.

Recently, nosotros observed diverse XML gadgets, similar Followers, that incorporate references to the spider web log URL, are every bit good dependent area to Transition scheduling.

• Blog Feeds.
• BlogLists.
• LinkLists.

All of these gadgets purpose XML code, in addition to appears to live dependent area to a Transition based update delay.

If you lot just republished your blog, using "Buy a domain", to a non BlogSpot URL, you lot may live seeing the Transition symptoms.

We're sorry...
This gadget is configured incorrectly.

or alternately, just a blank infinite where 1 or to a greater extent than gadgets used to live seen.

Another alter late observed is that the quondam 72 sixty minutes Transition is directly 96 to 120 hours, for roughly gadgets.

As frustrating every bit these peccadilloes may be, they are however less frustrating than spider web log owners seeing the old

Another spider web log is already hosted at this address.

or worse, having their readers report

Error 404
Server non found

when trying to sentiment a custom domain published blog.

And of the (progressively rarer) reports of "Another spider web log ..." seen inwards DNS address mistakes, instead of suggesting

Try recycling the domain settings, inwards Google Apps.

Now that Blogger has discontinued the "Buy a Domain" feature, nosotros hit got non yet observed when Transition is applied.

Improved Stub Weblog Using Search Preferences Features

I've been advising people to use a stub blog, when renaming (changing the URL of) a blog, for a few years.

Hey folks, this spider web log has moved to http://mynewblogspoturl.blogspot.com.

That's a stub postal service - together with a blog, containing exclusively a stub post, is a stub blog.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 stub spider web log is a compromise, based on the Blogger anti-spam policy which prevents Blogger blogs from automatically redirecting from an quondam URL to a novel URL.

• The stub postal service replaces the master copy page - non the private postal service pages, non archive retrievals, label searches, etc.
• The stub postal service contains a minimum of information.

The stub postal service is only ameliorate than nothing.

But now, mayhap you lot tin sack render something a fleck ameliorate than a elementary stub post, to allow your readers know that your spider web log at nowadays has a novel URL.

Part of the of late offered Search preferences features include a twosome of redirection options. This won't eliminate the anti-spam policy - you lot yet can't redirect exterior the base of operations spider web log URL - but you lot can, maybe, improve redirection within the base of operations spider web log URL.

• Custom Page Not Found.
• Custom Redirects.

Custom Page Not Found

If you lot intend close it, a stub postal service is actually exactly a fancy "Page Not Found" post, hosted on the master copy page. If all pages within the spider web log only redirect forthwith to a "Page Not Found" display - together with if you lot tin sack brand the display expect similar it's designed equally role of the blog, together with then you lot bring a ameliorate stub post.

• You tin sack brand the stub postal service to a greater extent than relevant to your readers.
• You tin sack brand the stub postal service forthwith visible - for private postal service pages, archive retrievals, label searches, etc - also equally for master copy page access.

And, a ameliorate stub postal service makes a ameliorate stub blog.

Custom Redirects

If you're yet non satisfied alongside the unmarried stub postal service approach, you lot tin sack redirect specific URLs, within the blog, to other URLs within the blog. If you lot bring identified private posts, specific label searches, etc that operate past times lots of visitor traffic, you lot tin sack redirect those page URLs to pages or posts that render to a greater extent than specific data than the custom (but yet generic) "Not Found" stub post.

Specific traffic sources - high traffic pages, posts, label searches, etc - may justify something ameliorate than the generic stub post.

Both the Custom Page Not Found together with Custom Redirects options are role of "Errors together with redirections" inwards Settings - "Search preferences", inwards the New Blogger GUI.

You can't redirect whatsoever quondam spider web log URLs to the novel spider web log URL - fifty-fifty alongside the novel Search preferences features - but you lot tin sack operate past times inwards easier for your viewers to empathize that your spider web log has moved - together with mayhap link directly, from individualised stub posts, to specific URLs within the novel blog. And, you lot tin sack exercise whatsoever of this, whatsoever fourth dimension it's convenient.

• Setup the original, master copy page sentiment based stub post, immediately.
• Setup a Custom "Page Not Found" stub post, later.
• Setup private Custom Redirects, equally you lot position whatsoever high traffic unmarried postal service activity.

It's your blog, together with it's your decision.

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Research Custom Domain Advert Changes, First

As custom domain publishing becomes exactly 1 to a greater extent than characteristic to add together to your Blogger blog, about weblog owners create upwards one's take away heed that the domain that they are using, correct now, is non to their liking.

Fortunately, alongside a Blogger blog, the physical care for of changing your domain to another is non complicated - hoping that you lot accept the correct tools, in addition to brand the correct decisions.

• Buy (as required), in addition to setup, a novel domain URL.
• Publish the weblog dorsum to BlogSpot.
• Publish the weblog to the novel domain.

All that considered, in that place is a 4th stride which many weblog owners larn by to overlook - until long later on they accept completed the third.

One of the features of custom domain publishing is to increase page rank / reputation / visibility.

Try to retain reputation from the erstwhile domain.

When publishing the weblog to a non BlogSpot URL, the vast bulk of all Blogger weblog owners, when changing the weblog from 1 custom domain to another, volition produce good to plan a 3rd step.

• Forward the electrical flow domain to the novel published URL.

Too many times nosotros run across the plaintive shout out inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.

I exactly bought a novel domain for my weblog - but the previous URL is at 1 time 404!

This is a mutual complaint, for about weblog owners who produce non intend the physical care for through, earlier starting the domain swap.

Retaining reputation, acquired to date, is non going to last easy.

For besides many weblog owners, the 3rd stride is not, at all, obvious.

But how produce I frontward the domain?

Too many custom domain owners don't know how to purpose the Domain Manager sorcerer provided past times the registrar - or (in the illustration of "Buy a domain" customers) accept non fifty-fifty setup the Google Apps domain director desktop account, which provides access to the Enom or GoDaddy Domain Manager.

For these weblog owners - in addition to whatever weblog owners contemplating a domain modify - I'll add together a 4th stride to the process.

You'll require to purpose tools provided past times the registrar.

• Do about basic query - abide by out how to access, in addition to how to use, the Domain Manager wizard.

And produce this novel First Step earlier you lot require to report

I exactly bought a novel domain for my weblog - but the previous URL - in addition to all my search engine hits - are at 1 time 404!

in addition to preferably earlier starting

• Publish the weblog dorsum to BlogSpot.
• Use "Buy a domain" (if possible), in addition to position out the weblog to the novel domain.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 "301 Moved Permanently" redirect - which is what you lot volition need - is setup differently, for unlike registrars. Some registrars, such every bit GoDaddy, fifty-fifty accept unlike nameservers which are setup differently - in addition to which require redirection to last setup differently.

Try to larn the proper instructions from your registrar - then the private post URLs are properly redirected - if your registrar volition back upwards such redirection.

You're going to lose search reputation - at least, temporarily.

After you lot properly consummate the higher upwards procedures, don't await to run across an immediate transfer of page rank, reputation, in addition to visibility to the novel published URL.

You require to excogitation ahead, in addition to visit the issues, when changing domains - exactly every bit you lot would plan the rename of the blog, in addition to every bit you lot would plan the custom domain migration. You'll abide by that changing the custom domain published URL involves issues from both of the latter changes.

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Too many #Blogger weblog owners, alongside blogs published to custom domains, create upwards one's take away heed that a unlike domain cite would last meliorate for the blog. They purchase the novel domain, in addition to rename the blog, without doing whatever planning for the change.

They abide by that the erstwhile domain URL is all the same referenced, later on the modify - in addition to the weblog is non beingness re indexed, nether the novel domain URL, apace enough. As search seat drops, they discovery that they failed to excogitation the URL change.

Before Changing Your Custom Domain Published Blog, To Another Custom Domain, Do Some Research
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Research Custom Domain Name Changes, First

Custom Redirects Allow You Lot Modification Pages Or Posts, Together With Let On Dissimilar Urls

We've been quest for the mightiness to convey post URLs that differ from the post service titles, for approximately time. Now, nosotros convey the Custom Permalinks feature, available inwards the New Blogger GUI Posts Editor, for novel posts.

Some people would similar to live on custom permalinks for existing posts - together with for pages. We tin create that, likewise - only non yesteryear using Custom Permalinks. Custom Permalinks exclusively plant for novel posts - together with non for pages.

To alter the permalink for existing pages together with posts, nosotros live on the Custom Redirects option, inwards the "Settings" bill of fare nether "Search preferences".

This post service was published as

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/07/custom-redirects-let-you-modify.html

If I had used the "Permalink" pick earlier publishing, I could convey entered

new-blogger-gui-gives-us-custom

and published

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/07/new-blogger-gui-gives-us-custom.html

If I desire to alter the URL of an existing page or post, I would live on "Custom Redirects".

To address this post service as

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/07/new-blogger-gui-gives-us-custom.html

instead of

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/07/custom-redirects-let-you-modify.html

I would live on "Custom Redirects", and

1. Enter "From:" equally "/2012/07/custom-redirects-let-you-modify.html".
2. Enter "To:" equally "/2012/07/new-blogger-gui-gives-us-custom.html".
3. Select "Permanent".
4. Click the "Save" link.
5. Hit the "Save changes" button.

Note that Custom Redirects, different Custom Permalinks, lets you lot alter the published calendar month together with yr ("/2012/07/"), together with the extension (".html"). If you lot live on Custom Redirects, create this carefully.

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Redirecting The Traffic From Your Blogger Blog

Some Blogger spider web log owners are confused almost their mightiness to redirect traffic to, or from, their blogs.

Sometimes this leads to problems, every bit inward the necessitate to study a occupation amongst spam classification, inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken

Why was my spider web log simply deleted, for "Malicious JavaScript"?

Other people volition desire to know why, afterwards renaming their blog, all the search engine references at 1 time betoken to a dead URL. Still others may desire to rename specific posts, in addition to yet convey the ship service URLs check the novel titles.

Blog URLs, in addition to Post URLs, are complex details, for Blogger blogs. By default, both are managed for you. Not everybody understands how to manage spider web log in addition to ship service URLs, when necessary.

Not every spider web log possessor understands that ones readers are non possessions, to hold out manipulated at will.

Spammers would appreciate the mightiness to operate Blogger blogs every bit starting points.

Many spammers would dear to use diverse Blogger blogs every bit gateways, redirecting their readers either to other Blogger blogs, or to non Google controlled websites. In lodge to discourage spamming activity, neither type of redirect is permitted, past times the Blogger spam classifier.

Even if automated redirection was permitted, many redirection techniques may non piece of work for everybody. Modern browsers, designed to forbid abusive activeness similar hacking in addition to spamming, may convey filters which explicitly block DNS settings, in addition to scripts, designed to redirect traffic from 1 website to another.

If you lot migrate a blog, in addition to thence redirect, you lot may non come across consistent results.

If you lot blueprint your URL migration strategy to require automated redirection - in addition to fifty-fifty if Blogger / Google does non delete the spider web log for abusive technique - you lot may nevertheless non come across a consistent transfer of existing traffic, to your novel URL.

You tin redirect a Blogger blog, to a non BlogSpot URL, using properly setup custom domain publishing - "CNAME" referral. That is the solely valid way to redirect a BlogSpot URL, to a non BlogSpot URL. Any other method volition eventually move out you lot posting, inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken

Why was my spider web log simply deleted, past times Blogger?

If you lot migrate to a novel BlogSpot URL, operate a Welcome ship service inward a stub blog.

If you lot rename your spider web log - in addition to seat out to a novel BlogSpot URL, your solely recourse is to seat out a "stub" (empty) spider web log to the sometime URL, in addition to visually redirect your readers.

This spider web log is at 1 time published every bit "blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com". Please update your bookmarks.

Blogger does non offering ".htaccess" features, such every bit redirection.

One disappointment, experienced past times non Blogger webmasters, is the lack of ".htaccess" based redirection. You produce non convey access to the "blogspot.com" origin folder - in addition to you cannot operate ".htaccess" based redirection.

You tin redirect the feed - afterwards you lot setup a novel feed.

You can, if you lot wish, redirect the spider web log feed, afterwards renaming the spider web log - but this should hold out done only when necessary.

There are several specific cases where the spider web log feed should non hold out redirected.

Custom redirects does non supply BlogSpot to BlogSpot redirection.

Blogger latterly provided us the selection to redirect traffic from 1 spider web log ship service to another - but the syntax used past times the custom redirects sorcerer explicitly prevents redirection exterior the base of operations spider web log URL. That said, nosotros convey seen some imaginative redirections, betwixt dissimilar URLs inward the same blog.

Use of the custom redirect characteristic tin generate interesting problems, non all of which tin hold out prevented, easily. You tin redirect to a greater extent than or less URLs - but you lot necessitate to sympathize what you lot can, in addition to cannot produce - in addition to why you lot cannot produce everything that you lot would like.

Redirecting Whatsoever Url Inward Your Blog, To Unopen To Other Url

In belatedly 2011, Blogger Engineering gave us a novel Blogger characteristic - the mightiness to redirect whatever URL inward a blog, to whatever other URL inward the blog.

Like whatever feature, nosotros works life an immediate role for it - something much requested, for a adept while. Other people guide maintain works life to a greater extent than uses for the redirection characteristic - too all the same others guide maintain works life confusion.

The syntax used inward the redirection "From" too "To" values is non ever obvious - too occasionally at that spot is confusion virtually what tin - too can't - survive done amongst redirection.

This is the URL of this post.

Using the redirection feature, I tin redirect precisely about other URL in this blog, to this post service - or conversely, I tin redirect the URL of this post service to precisely about other URL, in this blog.

You tin alone redirect within the blog.

Both the "From" too "To" values inward "Custom Redirects" convey whatever static weblog URL, less the base of operations URL of that blog. You cannot specify the base of operations URL - then all redirections will survive within the weblog itself.

You tin redirect the weblog abode page display, within the blog.

The initial role for the redirection characteristic (at least, for me) was to replace the Home page of the blog, amongst precisely about other page or post - possibly, this post.

From: /
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html

I could modify the Home page of this blog, to starting fourth dimension all novel readers on the Topics Index page.

From: /
To: /p/topics.html

You tin redirect 1 specific post service URL reference, within the blog.

If I was to modify the Title of this post, when re published, the URL would non change. If I wanted to modify the URL of this post, I could redirect the desired URL, to the actual URL.

From: /2012/12/redirecting-any-urls-in-your-blog.html
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html

You tin brand a shorter URL, for slow access within or exterior the blog.

If I want to let this post service to survive accessed from a shorter URL, I tin produce that. If yous click on the shorter URL (below), yous volition banker's complaint that yous all the same run across the longer URL inward the browser address window!

From: /redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html

I late created a shortcut to my Topics index, every bit "blogging.nitecruzr.net/topics".

From: /topics
To: /p/topics.html

And here is a demonstration of a custom redirect, to my magic post service virtually custom redirects.

From: /SimpleURL
To: /2013/01/blogger-magic-redirecting-url-in-your.html

Pick whatever 2 URLs, inward the same blog.

To buy the farm the "From" too "To" values for whatever redirection, I precisely convey whatever 2 URLs inward the same blog. Choose whatever 2 examples - 1 for "From", the other for "To".

• The Home page: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/
• A post: /search?q=
• A static page: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/p/topics.html
• A label search: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/search/label/Redirecting
• A shortcut URL: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/topics

And drib the base of operations URL: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net

Giving:

• The Home page: /
• A post: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
• A static page: /p/topics.html
• A label search: /search/label/Redirecting
• A shortcut URL: /topics

Having developed the proper "From" too "To" values, adding a "Custom Redirects" entry is elementary enough.

Make a cleaner "menu bar" display, if yous redirect the abode page.

Having setup a useful complement of Pages, too redirected the Home page, yous may want to take away the "Home" page tab. Just edit the Pages gadget, using the dashboard Layout wizard, or the on weblog quick edit prototype - non the dashboard Pages sorcerer - too de pick out the "Home" page.

H5N1 elementary example, showing the result, may survive seen inward my demonstration blog, Home Page Redirected To Label Search.

From: /
To: /search/label/Home%20Page

There are precisely about subtle limitations.

Note that a label search displays a fixed issue of xx posts, regardless of the "Show at most" / "Number of posts on principal page" setting. If this is a work for your blog, yous tin explicitly laid maximum label search size, using the "max-results" modifier inward the "To" value.

You may too want to remove the "Showing posts amongst label ..." notice, if yous similar a cleaner display. In my demonstration weblog (mentioned above), I did non produce this - to brand my examples to a greater extent than obvious.

The possibilities hither are endless. Just role mutual feel - too again, banker's complaint the limits on redirection.

Click here, for instructions. Note again, that the actual address, displayed inward the browser address window, volition non change. Note again: by design, yous cannot specify the base of operations URL - then all redirecting will survive within the weblog itself

Other than the latter limitations, though, this is a pretty powerful characteristic - when yous empathize the design.

Renaming Your Blog, Together With Using A Sitemap

For a Blogger spider web log which needs a sitemap for indexing, changing the URL requires creating a novel sitemap.

For a spider web log newly published to a unlike URL - either a non BlogSpot URL, using custom domain publishing, or but a unlike BlogSpot URL - the commencement few days nether the novel URL are critical to the success of the blog. Some spider web log owners find, to their horror, that their spider web log of a abrupt has no page rank, as well as has dropped out of visibility inward the search engine results.

I bought a domain from Google, as well as my spider web log is right away invisible. Obviously, this is about other swindle past times Google, stealing my money!

These spider web log owners accept non done whatsoever research, most the custom domain migration process, or most whatsoever issues related to renaming the blog. The successful migration procedure starts alongside getting the blog, nether its novel URL, indexed past times the search engines.

One of the most useful tools, that yous equally a spider web log possessor tin use, is a sitemap, now provided automatically, past times Blogger.

The novel automatic sitemap volition index the most recent 2,500 posts. For most blogs, that volition hold upwards sufficient.

When yous re issue your spider web log nether a novel URL, yous desire all posts reindexed promptly. To larn all posts reindexed, if your spider web log contains to a greater extent than than 2,500 posts, yous are going to necessitate a to a greater extent than robust sitemap complement.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 sitemap, to back upwards a spider web log alongside to a greater extent than than 2,500 posts, volition require new entries, inward Webmaster Tools.

You desire your blog, nether the novel URL, to hold upwards visible nether that novel URL equally shortly equally possible, thus setup a proper sitemap, if necessary - as well as thus get to function publishing novel posts, as well as growth search engine activity. And, use Jump Break for all novel posts, to focus search engine attending on the private posts.

Custom Domain Publishing - Moving Dorsum To Blogspot, Using The Novel Gui, Isn't Obvious

The New Blogger GUI (2011) has been available for just over six months - as well as nosotros meet novel confusion virtually using it, daily, inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?.

How create I cancel my custom domain redirect, inwards the New GUI?

This is 1 specific question, that's been asked, recently.

The response to that specific inquiry is genuinely correct there, inwards front end of us - nosotros exactly don't meet it.

Blogger, similar Google, likes to role overlay panels for roughly displays, such equally how you lot meet the movie below - when you lot click on it.

In the novel GUI, if I hold back at the Blog Address settings for this blog, inwards Settings - Basic - Publishing, I see

See the "X"?
(Click on the picture, to amend meet the details.)



"Edit" is a link, that lets me "Edit" my custom domain settings. The "Edit" magician (which exactly pops upward inwards the same display, when I click on "Edit") does non allow me alter the URL of the weblog dorsum to BlogSpot - as well as this is the commencement of roughly confusion.

To take the custom domain redirect, as well as re set out the weblog to the domain - or set out dorsum to BlogSpot - 1 must click on the "X" inwards the exceed right. With the publishing shown as

blogging.nitecruzr.net                Edit               X bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com     redirects 

clicking on the "X" lets me take the custom domain redirect. Clicking on "Edit" alone lets me alter specific custom domain settings, such equally selecting the "naked domain" redirect option.

When you lot click on the "X", you lot volition larn a verification popup.

Are you lot sure? This volition take the electrical flow custom domain.

And you'll desire to hitting "Yes".

So, click on the "X" (it's genuinely inwards dark - I demonstrate it inwards red, above, to enter to a greater extent than obvious), to clear the custom domain redirect as well as set out dorsum to the master copy BlogSpot URL. If you lot don't meet the "X", click inwards the upper correct corner of that window - to the correct of "Edit" as well as exactly left of the window border. Apparently, non all browsers display the "X" properly.

Using A Robust Sitemap, Amongst Your Blog

For a Blogger blog, proper indexing yesteryear the search engines is critical to the success of the blog, inwards getting readers.

Some weblog owners are disappointed to honor that their weblog has no page rank, in addition to no visibility inwards the search engine results - in addition to lilliputian to no chances for getting readers.

Not all weblog owners empathise details nearly the custom domain migration process, whatsoever issues related to renaming the blog, or precisely how to give-up the ghost a weblog properly indexed.

One of the most useful tools, that y'all every bit a weblog possessor tin use, is the sitemap.

With a Blogger blog, that is typically a collection of posts indexed yesteryear appointment in addition to mayhap yesteryear topic, the sitemap, properly presented to the search engines, helps the search engines index all of the posts methodically.

Submit a Sitemap to say Google nearly pages on your site nosotros mightiness non otherwise discover.

That's the uncomplicated advice, from Google, which y'all should see.

When I created this blog, in addition to submitted my get-go sitemap, Google setup a default.

http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

Had y'all looked at the "robots.txt" file, when this weblog was published every bit "bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com", that's what y'all would bring seen.

Having afterward published this weblog every bit "blogging.nitecruzr.net", Google setup a novel default sitemap.

/search?q=">my electrical flow "robots.txt" file, in addition to that's what y'all volition see.

The default sitemap indexes the most recent 26 posts. For most blogs, specially novel ones, y'all volition seldom release to a greater extent than than that number betwixt each indexing transcend yesteryear the search engines - in addition to a 26 posts submission is by in addition to large sufficient.

For a weblog that's been published for a while, in addition to has to a greater extent than than 26 posts, y'all volition postulate a to a greater extent than robust sitemap than the default. When y'all change the URL of the blog, or when y'all use Jump Break on principal page posts, y'all postulate a sitemap complement that indexes each private post, ane yesteryear one.

Note that whatsoever sitemap volition hold upward much to a greater extent than useful, alongside the weblog publishing a "Full" feed.

In the example of this blog, which straight off has over 1,500 posts, I would add together iv sitemaps (each sitemap to submit a maximum of 500 posts)

1. http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
2. http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
3. http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
4. http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500

Having added the correct complement of sitemaps, y'all scout the display inwards the Sitemaps wizard:

Submitted URLs
1,539
1,535 URLs inwards spider web index

Having submitted those sitemaps final week, 1,535 out of 1,539 posts, allowing for around search engine indexing latency, is nearly right.

Your blog, having a unlike number of posts, may purpose a unlike complement of sitemaps - but y'all tin purpose a like strategy, inwards determining the number to use. And nonetheless y'all expect at it, adding a novel sitemap segment for every 500 posts beats manually updating the sitemap for every novel post.

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Cloning Your Blog

Occasionally, nosotros come across prove of wistful thinking inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?.

How create I brand an exact re-create of my blog, to roughly other URL?

This should last a elementary plenty chore - but it's not.

Before planning to clone a blog, using exact content, design, together with layout, i should ever acquit inwards remove heed the search engines, together with the possibility that both a clone may last dependent area to search engine duplicated content penalization - which may touching on both blogs. Search engines desire to index i re-create of everything. When at that spot are multiple copies of a given post on the Internet, all copies must last treated amongst suspicion.

When planning whatever cloning operation, nosotros must catch the essential elements of a blog.

• Accessories together with Gadgets. There is currently no slowly way to re-create XML based accessories from i weblog to another.
• Blog Address. This is unique for each blog, together with cannot last cloned. All weblog content, which refers to the weblog address (URL) must last updated. Internal links must last edited, to betoken to other articles inside the target blog. External references to the weblog may or may non require to last updated, to betoken to the novel address.
• Comments together with Posts. Blog "articles" written past times weblog members together with visitors tin last copied from the rootage weblog to the target blog, using the Export / Import wizards. Note i known caution, which should last observed when Importing content.
• Layout together with Template. The weblog template tin last copied from the rootage weblog to the target blog, using the Template backup together with restore wizards.
• Blog Reputation. As amongst whatever novel blog, this volition outset from scratch. All external links together with references - whether the search engines, or the user community inwards full general - must outset from zero. This volition last vaguely like to the procedure of renaming a blog - amongst the exception of the reputation of both the rootage together with target blogs, equally noted above.

Some people, mindful of the inability to re-create an XML based accessory / gadget, volition advise extracting the HTML rendered equivalent, from a weblog rootage listing - thence creating an HTML gadget inwards the target blog, using the extracted HTML from the rootage blog. This is a possible workaround, amongst several downsides.

• This volition last a manual together with repetitive process, i gadget at a time.
• Any gadgets, copied this way, volition last based on HTML, together with can't last maintained using an XML wizard.
• The content of whatever gadgets, copied this way, volition last static.

One specific accessory, Followers, is a business office of both the rootage blog, together with the Followers community - the collective profiles owned past times all of the Followers. The Followers gadget only cannot last copied, from i weblog to another.

Other than the exceptions of the Accessories, together with of the Followers community together with gadget, most whatever Blogger weblog tin last cloned - amongst the proper planning together with understanding.

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