Domain - Blogspot = ZERO PageRank
>> Sunday, May 17, 2009
a simple math when switching from blogspot to a domain name:Domain - Blogspot = ZERO PageRank
What will you do if the item you purchased is not working the way it should and almost wrecked your home? Common answer of course, you get back to the merchant and ask for a replacement. But how would you feel if you found out that there is no way for you to get back on them? Ahhh! It’s a total devastation.
This is just the same analogy of what happened to my blog. A friend, who is also a blogger, convinced me to purchase my own domain after easily getting her own through GoDaddy. I thought the process would be as easy as purchasing a product in the net, but I was surprise that it almost wrecked my blog completely. I never realized that purchasing a domain through eNom (Google's partner) would be a big headache.
What had happened was, after settling the payment I immediately received an email that my domain will be available within the next 3 days. I got so excited but unanticipated things happened. Guess what?! After 3 days I can’t even access my blog either I go with www.picturesnmore.com or www.picturesnmore.BLOGSPOT.com. I tried contacting Google and I am just being directed to their forums with frustrated members having the same issue. I sent an email query to eNom and received a response but it didn’t fix the issue.
I read a lot of online forums and luckily landed in a computer geek blogsite where I found some helpful information that fixed my domain problem. One issue that I am still trying to fix right now is my Google PageRank. After switching from blogspot to a new domain, my PageRank drastically dropped from PR 3 to ZERO. Sad!
