Question | Blogger, Godaddy, HostGator
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- If I buy a new domain and do forwarding with masking to my blogger post URL what would happen to the backlinks that were pointing to my blog post exactly?
Will the power link back to this new domain or will it stay there?
- I have a blogger account, a domain from godaddy, and hosting?
People are telling me that forwarding with masking is bad for <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization">SEO</acronym> so I should set blogger with godaddy or something like that I don't know. I need a hosting though in order to do that and free ones don't offer changes to the CNAME records? so I got hostgator.
I am up to the part where I need to set the records in the CNAME for hostgator but every time I try to list ghs.google as the whatever, it won't work! It keeps telling me the record is already there when this is my FIRST time using this! How can it be there when I haven't even touched it?
Please help me
This is the tutorial im using : http://support.google.com/blogger/bi...381&page=ts.cs
I get stuck here:
Find the control panel on your domain registrar’s website, and locate your DNS (Domain Name System) settings. In order to link your blog to your custom domain, follow the instructions below to enter your "CNAME" and "A-records."
CNAME
Where it says Name, simply enter "www" and list ghs.google.com as the Host Name. See our detailed instructions on providing CNAMEs for various registrars. If yours isn't listed, or if you run into other difficulties, contact your registrar directly and they can help you out.
A-records (optional)
The following action links your naked domain (example.com) to your actual site (www.example.com). If you skip this step, visitors who leave off the "www" will see an error page.
Enter your domain name in the format example.com, and list the I.P. addresses shown below in the "A" section. You'll need to create four separate A-records which point to four different Google IPs. 216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21Could I just leave my forwarding with masking on with my domain + blogger to make everything easier or what?
And, is there any benefit in SEO if I don't have an EMD but it's something like this
www.General.com/Keyword 2/Posts/etc
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I don't understand. If I do a 301 from my blog posts to this new website, where will I direct it to if all the posts are on the blog???
I also need help with my posting. If google has already indexed my blogger posts as well as the posts from my domain, should I redirect all the posts from the blogger to my domain using the 301 or do I do something else?
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It sounds like you just want to pass on some of the link love your older stuff has which does not require cloaking.
Look into a 301 redirect.
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