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Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 4:09 am

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Here is how you can move your blog to your own domain (Part 2)

In the previous article, we covered how, after many people start their blogs hosted on platforms, and despite the fact that it is a good start because they are free and are generally of confidence in search engines, there was, however, the dangers associated with hosting a blog on another server.

In this way, you are at the mercy of the owner of the platform. You can delete a blog without prior notice, may be because the blog was considered too commercial or too much like spam. Then, WordPress does not allow affiliate links on their blogs and used by Therefore, make money for hosting a blog on their servers may be more difficult for some.

And therefore ideally arrive at the idea that it is better to accommodate your blog on your own server and preferably in the domain root, which gives special benefits. As a better ranking in search engines, which have more credibility in the eyes of its visitors, and if you use WordPress, in this case, hosting it on your own server, ie you are free to have affiliate links, if desired.

Finally, if you had a blog on another domain, you'd do a 301 redirect to tell search engines and visitors that the files moved, and where they have moved.

Now, how is this done? You can search Google for "301 redirect" to learn how to perform this configuration. Move your blog from a hosted solution, it is much easier to provide a link to your new blog in a post at the old location.

Just create a new blog post on the old, saying something like, "We have moved! This blog has been moved to a new domain. Click here to visit the new blog and be sure to update your bookmarks! "

That are linked to a new location, and told visitors where and how to notify to the search engines where to find his new blog. That is follow the link to the new location of your blog, and is likely to get the new domain indexed faster if not link to it from the old.

This makes you understand that having this in the beginning, that is, start your own blog on your own domain, has been prevented do this later. A domain name is generally under $ 10, and the accommodation is very low cost.

You want to install a fresh blog in a new domain, log into your cpanel and click the Fantastico button (the smiley one), and click New Installation. From the drop-down list, select the domain that you want to live.

If you want to be located in yourdomain.com, leave the field below. If you prefer to be in yourdomain.com / blog, then put the word blog in the field below. Then you just enter all your information from administrative login and click installation of WordPress and your blog will Live! You can find plenty of free themed templates to customize your blog with a quick visit to your favorite search engine.

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