So I Made the Big Switch to a Custom Domain Today
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Today I made a big change to this website. I went from "Gotta get that Money" @ http://gottagetthatmoney.blogspot.com to "Great Ways to Make Money Online" @ http://greatwaystomakemoneyonline.com.
I did this solely for SEO purposes. I really liked the name "Gotta get that Money" but it really wasn't yielding enough organic search engine traffic. I want to see if my search results traffic increases with my new custom domain "Great Ways to Make Money Online". Will they? I don't know.
So how did I do this? Well, I was hosted @ a blogspot on Blogger.com but when I decided to switch the site name I also paid for a new custom domain name. I did this through Blogger (Google) for a princely sum of 10 smacks. It was totally easy and painless and I was done in about 5 mins (except for my research time). The best part about this switch in my mind is that I can still use the free Blogger Push Button Publishing to build this website.
So I mentioned research time in the paragraph above, this is what I did. I used this handy dandy keyword tracker tool for free and tried various forms of the make money online set. This gave me plenty of ideas for new domain names.
Next, I manually put them into the Google Search Engine to see how many results are listed. This took some time because they say you shouldn't try to compete in a keyword niche with more than 100,000 sites if you are new to building websites or blogging.
Most of the make money online variables produced upwards of 10 million website and some as high as 50 million websites. So I settled on "Great Ways to Make Money Online" because it produced roughly 3 million other websites. I am not afraid to compete with these other 3 million websites and blogs at all, although maybe I should be.
So all said and done I feel very pleased about owning this new dot com domain.
Please tell me what you think about my switch to a custom domain. Have you recently switched or are maybe thinking about it in the future? Please leave some comments and tell us what you think!
3 comments:
switching to a domain name is always good , but the most recommended one is self hosted wordpress , but I guess if it works for you then no problem.I also see you still haven't added a favicon in your blog.Its easy to do and helps you stand out from the rest of the blogs.In your case although you have a domain name in a browser full of tabs it might look like a blogspot blog.Check out my post about it.
Adding a favicon in blogger
I guess you could be right about my crappy blogger flavicon in a browser full of tabs, but who fills their browser up with tabs to begin with? Plus, even if I wanted a flavicon, I went to your site and read some and figured it was way to hard for me. Thanks though!
i just made the switch too waiting to see how it pays off also. Blogger did make it very easy, only took about five minutes for me 2.
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