6 Major Things You Will Lose By Switching From Blogspot To Custom Domain Lately

If you have been blogging on blogger blog for long now with the blogspot sub domain and you are having intention to switch to your own custom domain at the long run, you should endeavour to know that it will surely come with some price to pay, that will temporary affect your blog negatively for some time before you will pick up again.

That is why it is always advisable to buy and use custom domain as earlier as possible when you are starting out your blogging on blogspot.

You should not always use the blogspot for years before switching to a custom domain, or else you are ready to face the consequences that will be presented to you thereafter.

Sometimes the aftermath of finally switching to a custom domain from long years of using blogspot can be very discouraging, as you will end up losing many things from your previous blogspot sub-domain in your new custom domain.

If you have already found yourself in that situation of using blogspot and you are planning to switch to custom domain but don’t know the full consequences of that  or the things that you will be losing, we are here to unravel them to you so you can brace yourself for the challenges that lies ahead.

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Today and straight away below, we are going to be telling you the 6 major things that you will lose whenever you finally decided to switch from blogspot to custom domain.

1.    Traffic

 Especially if you have good number of search engine traffic on your previous blogspot sub domain blog.

If your blogspot blog has some good number of search engine traffic and you switch it to a custom domain, be ready to lose almost half of your search engine traffic, as this happens because your custom domain is new and still lacks authority.

Some of your previous webpages that have been automatically redirected to your new custom domain will sink down in search ranking, thereby causing a serious drop in your traffic.

But note that it will not affect you must of your traffic are referral or social media traffic.

2.    Google + Comments

If you made the mistake of enabling Google + comment system in your previous blogspot blog, all your blog pages comments will be tied to the domain, and if you finally switch to custom domain, you will lose all the comments in your new domain.

So it is always advisable to use your blogger default commenting section when using blogspot and if you must enable the Goole + commenting system, then wait until you have started using your custom domain before enabling it from your Blogger dashboard interface.

3.    Hosted Adsense Ads

If you are running hosted Adsense ads and the ads are displaying on your previous blogspot blog as expected, you should be rest assured that when you switch to custom domain, Adsense ads will stop displaying, unless you upgrade the Adsense account to a non-hosted account.

4.    Social media shares

The default social media shares of a blogger blog consist of Google +, email, Facebook and Twitter, and so if you are enjoying good share counts on your previous blogopot sub domain, and you finally switch to a custom domain, those share counts will all be reset to zero.

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It happens that way because the share button and counts are also attached to the blogspot subdomain.

5.    Alexa Rank and Backlinks

Yes, you will definitely lose your google Alexa ranking and backlinks in your new custom domain after switching from blogstpo sub domain as your domain is now new and Alexa sees it as if you are starting up a new blog entirely.

All your backlinks will also disappear as those previous backlinks are tied to your previous blogspot sub domain.

6.   Page Rank

For sure even as we all know that Google Page Rank is dead, but if your previous blogspot subdomain has any page rank at all, you will lose it in your new domain.

These are the 5 major things but not the only things that you will lose when you switch a long known blogspot subdomain blog to a custom domain blog.

Other little things that you will lose are blog roll/blog list i.e. the list of blogs you are following previously and that you have them in the blog roll wiget.