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Garett Rogers writes:
Use your own domain with new Blogger feature
A brand new feature in the “New Blogger” lets you associate your own domain with an account without worrying about FTP settings or being stuck with a “blogspot.com” address. My first blog about Google was Google Addiction hosted on Blogger — but it would have been really handy if I could simply point that domain [...]
[via Googling Google]
Domain pointing is nothing new. Years ago I set up my first site on Freeserve, bought the oddbooks.co.uk domain and pointed it to my Freeserve domain. But for pointing to work, the hosting service (in this case Google) needs to let you configure its settings to recognise the pointing domain. That feature is what Google have added.
If you have a blog hosted by Google you might consider this as a step towards creating a full-blown website of your own, by getting your domain out there and linked. Presumably Google’s search will not penalise such domains for duplicate content, though that remains to be seen.
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Hi Alfred!
I’ll be making use of the feature myself in the next couple of months, with any luck…
Can one blog from inside “Second Life” yet? – that’s what I want to know.
Actually, what the world really needs is an application that’ll write our blogs for us. That’d save a lot of effort. I’ll get on it right away.
Wayne, I forgot to ask in my haste to write a “witty” response what benefit you are hoping to get from this feature. Do you have a Blogger account already?
Yes, I’m with Blogger, but it’s not enough for what I want to do.
But the problem for me is, my ‘blog is getting busier on a near daily basis, and starting a new ‘blog might just put me back at square one is some respects…
