Comments on The Real Blogger Status: Renaming A Followed Blog

Aldi, Any time you change the URL of the blog, th...

2011-12-31T00:39:06.676-08:00

Aldi,

Any time you change the URL of the blog, the page rank and search reputation, for the new URL, will start out as 0.0000. The old URL will appear in search results, for a while - linking to a non existent blog.

You will need to aggressively convince the search engines to update, as quickly as possible.

You can manage a custom domain based rename, a lot easier than a BlogSpot to BlogSpot rename.

This would be better explored in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, so we can discuss the details. There are a lot of details.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/01/custom-domain-migration-managing.html

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/03/renaming-your-blog-planning-change.html

Hi chuck,if I change my blogger name,would it effe...

2011-12-30T06:18:16.739-08:00

Hi chuck,if I change my blogger name,would it effect the google search reputation?will my old blog url appears in google if anyone search for it?thanks.

Chuck, is there a way to keep the followers? I jus...

2011-08-09T19:32:09.493-07:00

Chuck, is there a way to keep the followers? I just found this blog and this post after I switched url's. I wish someone would have warned me!!

Thanks!
Taylor

Ganning, If you change the URL of the blog, all o...

2011-05-03T00:26:26.173-07:00

Ganning,

If you change the URL of the blog, all of the content - comments, gadgets, posts, template - move to the new URL. It's the same blog - it just gets a new URL.

Question, if I changed the URL this way, could I m...

2011-05-01T14:25:03.909-07:00

Question, if I changed the URL this way, could I move the content on my blog as it is now as well? Or would it be starting from scratch with a new title?

Debby and Joel, Read the article, again. Followe...

2011-01-21T01:10:06.545-08:00

Debby and Joel,

Read the article, again. Followers remain with the blog, when you rename it - as does all content.

The challenge is the blog feed - when you change the URL of the blog, the feed URL changes. But as I wrote, you can publish a stub blog to the old URL, and redirect the feed there to the new feed URL.

I want to shorten the name of my blog as it's ...

2011-01-17T10:56:24.195-08:00

I want to shorten the name of my blog as it's way too long but keep it on blogspot and not buy a domain name.
It seems simple enough to log into my account and change the name but I've now learned that my followers won't transfer over... everything else will though, correct? All my content and widgets etc?? EVERYTHING but my followers?
Maybe I'm missing something here but to insure that I don't lose any followers, if I FIRST blogged using my old blog name that I'll be changing my name to .......... and to please resubscribe to that blog, wouldn't that solve the problem? Or is it a case of " If it sounds too simple it probably is!" REALLY hope someone can help me out here!

Thanks! This is very helpful!

2010-09-23T07:52:43.006-07:00

Thanks! This is very helpful!

Thanks, this was a big help. You helped me decide ...

2010-06-30T16:38:28.401-07:00

Thanks, this was a big help. You helped me decide not to change my blog's domain name -- not worth the hassle to my followers.

Ive changed my blog address but everytime i cli...

2010-04-20T14:31:54.414-07:00
Ive changed my blog address but everytime i click on pages on my blog it keeps redirected back to my original address... which tell me ADDRESS NOT FOUND.

That's a known problem with renaming a blog that has a static pages index. Delete then re add the pages index gadget, but please, do not delete any individual pages.

hi Ive changed my blog address but everytime i cl...

2010-04-20T10:13:16.535-07:00
hi

Ive changed my blog address but everytime i click on pages on my blog it keeps redirected back to my original address... which tell me ADDRESS NOT FOUND.. how can i fix this?

Thanks! I just posted my question there.

2010-03-24T18:20:54.478-07:00
Thanks! I just posted my question there.

Hi Petite, This would probably be a good idea to ...

2010-03-23T11:59:17.543-07:00
Hi Petite,

This would probably be a good idea to discuss in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, so we can work more interactively.

Hi Chuck - unfortunately I did not find your blog ...

2010-03-23T11:48:43.029-07:00
Hi Chuck - unfortunately I did not find your blog until after I changed my URL. You've provided a wealth of information that I wish I had found earlier.

My blogspot URL is exactly the same (petiteasiangirl.blogspot.com) but I did change the URL forwarding from www.petiteasiangirl.com to www.extrapetite.com last month. After that, my followers stopped receiving updates.

I don't know how to post a stub to my old URL because I never had any hosting on it - always used blogger. Can you suggest anything for me to do now that the mistake has already been made? I looked through your responses on the blogger help forum and only found references back to this post. Thank you in advance!

Thanks for all of your help. I just changed my blo...

2010-03-11T05:06:28.864-08:00
Thanks for all of your help. I just changed my blogger name and now will I lose all of my followers? What did I do?