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301 Redirect
I have two blogger domains, one with my "old" blog URL othersideofsupercareo.blogspot.com (which I could never remember and took forever to type). My new blog URL is supercareo.blogspot.com (much nicer). However, all of my pages are still indexed in Google under the old URL. I've looked all over the Google help pages and there is no blogger specific help article on how to set up a 301 redirect.
Anyone know how to do this? I would really like to get some organic traffic ...
Anyone know how to do this? I would really like to get some organic traffic ...
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Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on -
I don't think it's possible to set up a 301 redirect to your new blog from the old one due to the way Google handles blog names with Blogger. (Namely, if you move away from a name, it instantly becomes available to others unless you make a new blog at the old address as you have done.) Unfortunately, this also means that it might take a while for you to earn back some of your traffic and to get the proper subdomain appearing in search results.
I took the liberty of submitting your new blog URL to a few search engines in hopes of speeding up the process of getting your URL indexed. Hopefully at least a few of them will pick up your content and help your new blog URL get some credibility.
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Permalink Reply by SuperCareo on
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Thanks! Part of the reason that I wonder if there is any way to redirect is because I switched my domain name over three months ago and Google as still not indexed any of the pages, which I find odd.
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Permalink Reply by Sebastian on -
I would hazard a guess that you're bang out of luck!
One of the reasons I always go for self-hosted solutions -- you retain control over that kind of thing :) And they're pretty cheap nowadays, if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty.
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Permalink Reply by cooper on -
From what I no you can't because you don't have access to core files in blogger, self hosted blogs you have access and can do it to your hearts content.
But then I found this.
http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-redirect-your-blogger-bl...
Maybe it will help I don't know i haven't used blogger in a long time.
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Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on
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The tips in that link might bring back some human traffic (if people still use your old permalinks, perhaps, or follow one of those old search results from Google), but they require all the posts to exist on the old blog (which is going to be a problem without a little voodoo).
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Permalink Reply by Roxy on -
Is your old blog still active? Or have you deleted it? If you have not deleted it, you should make a post at the top of your old blog announcing that you've moved and include a link to your new blog.
You can add an HTML redirect to your old blog's code. From your dashboard, go to Layout and then Edit HTML. Add this code in the header:
I don't know how this will affect your organic results but it should push the spiders to your new site. NOTE: you can change the amount of time before the redirect happens by changing the 5 in the code above to however many seconds you want to wait before redirecting people. Right now it is set to 5 seconds. Hope that helps.
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I actually do have the older domain operating with a link to my new blog. I don't know if many people actually feel like clicking through though ...
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