Does Blogger offer a Blogspot.com address forwarding service?

if I change my domain from http://call-center-stories.blogspot.com.... to, say, virtual-observations.com, how can I set it up so any traffic from existing links and indexes that still point to the blogspot.com will be forwarded to the new domain name? Does blogger offer that service?

Rich

It's possible to redirect your visitors, by modifying your blogger template and adding a bit of code to redirect traffic. You want to add something like this:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://your-new-address.com/">

in your template between the HEAD tags.

However, this is not a search engine friendly method, though it will point your human visitors to the right place.

Blogger does not offer a service that redirects your visitors; that would make it easier for you to leave Blogger, and they don't want you to leave :)

You can find more discussion of Blogspot.com redirects in this forum thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthrea...

***If you still want to use blogger as the platform for your site, and just want to use your own domain name instead of a blogspot address, then Blogger's Custom Domain service will forward traffic to your blogspot blog at it's new address: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?an...

This is only useful if you just want to change the domain name, and won't help if you want to move away from Blogger to another blogging platform.

Please read through this to get an idea of what you need..


http://www.theedifier.com/blogging-blogg...

Use the new Custom Domains facility. You can change it in Settings------>Publishing to redirect it.