How to Move Your Blog from Blogspot to Your Own Hosting?

Blogger and WordPressMoving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting is undeniably a clever decision of time, but before that you might be looking for the right Web Hosting Plans that will fulfill your current and future needs. If you are seeking for an option that can let you bring all your Blogspot entries, comments and of course your blog traffic to your own hosted blog then, WordPress is the right choice for you.

WordPress as it’s the most famous blogging software on Paid hosting. Well, here’s the step by step guideline for moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting using WordPress. There may be two situations for this:

  1. You’ve yourblog.blogspot.com
  2. You’ve yourblog.com hosted by WordPress

In first situation you’ll be moving like:

  • Prepare for the migration by uploading few .php and .html test pages
  • Install WordPress on your server
  • Go to WordPress Dashboard > Manage > Posts, and delete “Hello World”
  • Now go to Manage > Import > Select Blogger and follow the instructions. All your entries and comments are there now.

Now go to your Blogspot blog and download all images, and upload them on your own server and enter them in the posts manually. (This is a hectic job, but you’ll have to do it.)

In second situation, you’ll have to:

  • First get back to yourblog.blogspot.com from your Blogspot account. For this go to Setting > Publishing > Switch to Blogspot.
  • Now change the name servers of your domain from your domain panel. You’ll have to give new name servers, i.e. as prescribed by the new hosting company.
  • And now follow all the steps as described in case 1.

Your Blogspot blog is now completely moved and set on your own hosting. Experience the new interface and better customization.

Posted under Blogging

This post was written by admin on May 10, 2009

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Selecting a Right Domain Name Extension for Your Business Website

Domain Name ExtensionSelecting a right domain name for your new business website is the most important decision for any webmaster. For one, selecting the actual name itself is hard, since you want to choose something that is short and concise, suits your business, and which is easy to remember.

After choosing the suitable name for your business website, the second most important is to decide the domain name extension of your website. Which extension should you choose a .com, .net, .biz, .ca, or any of the other extensions available out there?

As .com and .net are the most popular extensions, this is an easy choice for most of the webmasters. If you are in the UK, you’ll probably want to have.co.uk extension, whereas if you’re in Argentina you’d likely choose .com.ar if not .com.

But if your first choice is already taken, your secondary extension should depend more on what your business is about than anything else.

For example, if you are running an educational or nonprofit organization, you’d be more likely to take an .org than someone who is running an adult website.

Here are a couple of suggestions about the popular domain name extensions:

  • .com – The well-known and most common choice. Alternatives for other countries include .co.uk and .com.ar.
  • .net – The 2nd most popular and common choice, little bit less professional than .com. A perfect choice for business and personal websites.
  • .org – Mainly used by organizations and non profits but commonly used as an alternative for .com or .net when those choices are not available.
  • .info/.biz/.name – Slightly unpopular choices for less professional websites. These are alright if you really want to keep the domain name of your choice but .info, .biz, and .name doesn’t seems to be professional like the others.

Posted under Domains, Webhosting

This post was written by admin on April 25, 2009

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