http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/when-is-the-right-time-to-switch-from-worpress-hosted-blog-to-your-own-domain-bl Help Center Topic: When is the right time to switch from worpress hosted blog to your own domain bl en-US Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:26:59 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.labnol.org/forums/search.php http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/when-is-the-right-time-to-switch-from-worpress-hosted-blog-to-your-own-domain-bl#post-4661 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:58:10 +0000 Anonymous 4661@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>its normally difficult to decide. one normally starts on a free service like blogger as most are unsure whether the blog will click or not. and after it starts getting good traffic, one wants to shift to a hosted blog. but by that time there is so much to lose in terms of traffic, google ranking etc that the step becomes difficult. i feel that if one is sure that one will blog regularly, one should start a hosted blog and take an annual plan of a cheap host and it should not cost more than usd 70-80 for the year. consider it an investment and blog with cool mind. once the blog is successful, the plan can be easily upgraded. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/when-is-the-right-time-to-switch-from-worpress-hosted-blog-to-your-own-domain-bl#post-4647 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:06:36 +0000 Anonymous 4647@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>It would be difficult to spell an exact moment. But, I suggest that if you're making good hits, you make the switch ASAP. Otherwise, all your good content will continue to remain pointed at the WordPress.com blog.</p> <p>If you switch now, you can monetize your blog.</p> <p>Google indexes blogs rather properly, as far as I am aware </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/when-is-the-right-time-to-switch-from-worpress-hosted-blog-to-your-own-domain-bl#post-4639 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:46:29 +0000 Anonymous 4639@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>I am running a blog at <a href="http://digitizor.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://digitizor.wordpress.com</a>, and off late have been getting good hits. But the fear of losing hits on switching from custom domain is keeping me back. My queries are:</p> <p>1) once i switch to my own domain, will the google page indexing be as effective as it used to be while my blog was on wordpress?</p> <p>2) when should you ideally switch to the custom domain blog (running wordpress.org software). I wanted to know this in terms of hits</p> <p>thank you </p>