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Will I lose the ranking if change from blogspot to custom domain?

by irshad321
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I have a blog you can visit from signature, the blog has Pagerank 4 but but doesn't have a custom domain. it is running a blogspot domain. I want to change the blogspot.com to a .com domain. The question is that, will I loose my PR and organic traffic?? If my blog is optimized for some keywords, will those keywords be still optimized or not??
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  • Profile picture of the author icoachu
    Yes you will. You should copy the keyword structure of your current blog and put it on your domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Braybrooke
    The question I would be asking is would it be possible to select keywords for the .com domain that may be even better optimised than what you had for the blogspot blog. Maybe your long term PR and organic traffic can be markedly improved on? Just a thought.
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    • Profile picture of the author irshad321
      Originally Posted by David Braybrooke View Post

      The question I would be asking is would it be possible to select keywords for the .com domain that may be even better optimised than what you had for the blogspot blog. Maybe your long term PR and organic traffic can be markedly improved on? Just a thought.
      Yes that is posible..
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  • Profile picture of the author Ali Thunder
    Yes You will loose the ranking! But you should copy the same structure from your previous site and put it in your new one and starting doing SEO, soon you will get back the traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author Zotti
    It might be worthwhile to look into whether/how you can let Google know about the change, using Google Webmasters Tool.

    In the past (longer time ago), Google allowed website owners, for example, to designate which website they wanted Google to crawl if they had two websites with the same or very similar content. It also allowed for choosing to crawl the site with or without "www." It seems that I read, at that time, about Google providing a way to notify them about a domain name change, for the very reason that a site wouldn't lose its ranking. I haven't used Webmaster Tools for a long time, but I imagine that if Google provided such tools at that time, it might provide the same or better tools now in migrating a site to a different domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anton543
    Isn't there a some kind of redirect to do this? I am not a coder, but I thought there would be something that allows a person to migrate to new urls without losing value of the old urls.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    I would create the new site and make it as good if not better than your blogspot site BUT ALSO have a redirect on the blogspot site so you don't lose traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author BrianDouglas
    Google has tools in Webmasters Tools specifically for this. You notify them of the new domain, and they take care of the rest.
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