By Manamarak on

I am currently hosting a drupal based blog (and ezine) at SiteGround, and am trying to drive traffic to my site. I have been advised to register with Blogger.com, however, it seems that it is not possible to do this, am I correct? I am completely lost, I notice that Blogger will allow you to host a blog on another site, but there must be a hard-wired html file to which you can link, as well as some file on an ftp server.

Am I correct in guessing that this cannot be done?

My site can be viewed at http://www.illustratedphotography.com/edblog

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notarealperson’s picture

notarealperson commented

Register in what sense? Mirror the content?

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Manamarak commented

Yes, that's what I mean, I think...

What I really want to do is use them as a referral site, so that if one searches for content which I have on my site, they would be able to find me on Blogger, but without the content being hosted on Blogger. Is that possible?

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anshuman commented

Lets put it like this - all your content on your blog have URLs. Each content 'post' has a unique URL. Your presence on blogger would give you a boost when you have lots of pages of the form www.my_blogname.blogspot.com/my_page_name.html , which I dont see happening unless you have your data posted on blogger blog as well.

So either you -
1) go the blogger-ftp way (in which case your data is pulled from your ftp server by blogger, AND creating blogspot.com urls for each data).

OR

2) keep posting in parallel to blogger (if you think that would be time consuming, blog by email. You can configure your blogger account to have an email ID, and all mails to that ID will be posted as a blog post on blogger - http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41452 )

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Manamarak commented

Right, but what I'm worried about is that the duplicate content might hurt my rating in Google, or is that a myth?

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anshuman commented

Not a myth, its actually true - read up at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359 for more information.
Well you might argue that one of the sites will be blacklisted.. but then why take a chance?

From SEO point of view, your blog being a blogspot or at your own domain should not matter much, cause the page ranking will be done based on content, and I dont think there will be any URL favoritism for blogspot.

To know more about SEO, read this book/article (short and crisp stuff) - http://www.meilach.com/downloads/seo_made_easy/SEO_MadeEasy.pdf