Change of Address for Monetize Your Blog

Posted on December 5, 2006
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About a week ago I decided to change the url for my blog. This was based on an article I read which described how to generate more traffic to your blog (How to build traffic to your blog).

The theory is that search engines will rank you better if your url uses hyphenated words. Since my blog was relatively young (and still is) with minimal inbound links, I decided to change the url. The url was http://monetizetheblog.blogspot.com. I have now changed it to http://monetize-your-blog.blogspot.com.

Changing the url was easy. Under Settings:Publishing inside Blogger, I just changed the blogspot url. It seemed to take effect straight away.

At the time I changed my url, my blog had just appeared in Google (although the only way I could find it was by searching with site:monetizetheblog.blogspot.com). After I changed the url it dropped out of Google almost immediately. Since then my new url appeared in Google then promptly disappeared again. I don’t know whether it appeared because I submitted the blog to Google and I don’t know why it disappeared (lack of inbound links maybe).

Anyway, since then I have had to do the following:

The end result of all that activity is that I am now getting traffic to my new blog url but I still don’t appear in google. Was it worth the effort? It’s probably too early to tell, but I’m hoping that ultimately it will result in a higher search engine ranking. At least there is very little downside - my blog is so young and as yet receives very little traffic anyway…

I would be curious to hear of other bloggers experiences with urls and search engine ranking.




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