: Changed my blog's URL: what next? I started working on a blog from last month. My blogs URL was quite big (for ex. http://my-old-long-url-blog.blogspot.com). I used it because I thought having

@Si4351233

No there is little or no benefit of having keyword in domain after the EMD algo update.
EMD is exact match domain update which says the having keyword in domain will not be benificial unless it has quality backlinks. Here are the details of that update
searchengineland.com/google-emd-update-research-and-thoughts-137340 http://www.webpronews.com/google-emd-update-what-is-its-real-impact-2012-10 searchengineland.com/google-emd-update-research-and-thoughts-137340

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@Pope3001725

It will take some time for your old posts to drop out of Google. Partially because it takes a while for Google to drop pages that no longer exist (they give them a chance to return) and partially because your old site was probably not crawled frequently and it will take some time for Google to realize they do no exist anymore. But they will disappear from Google's search results eventually.

By changing your URLs you are essentially starting over. You cannot expect your new pages to rank as well as the old pages because they have lost all of the links your old pages accumulated over time. In other words you shot yourself in the foot by changing your URLs. If you want them to rank as well as they did before then you will need to use the information contained in the link provided by Anagio and do 301 redirects from your old URLs to your new URLs. 301 redirects tell Google that your pages have moved and where to find them. That includes associating any links they have acquired with the new URLs. Without the SEO value those links have to offer you're back at square one.

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@Si4351233

Well since it's an entirely different sub-domain you would need to create 301 redirects from your old website to the new site, however i'm not sure how to go about doing that on Blogspot. Creating and submitting a new sitemap is the right way to start. But to automatically redirect visitors from the old site to the new site isn't easy on blogspot.

This is how to setup a meta redirect
www.spiceupyourblog.com/2011/01/automatic-redirect-blogger-blogs-url.html
The problem is that search engines probably wont pass on any credit like they would a 301 redirect.

Here is a discussion about 301 redirects in Blogspot and some possibilities
www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=6d25a21c8e1e9025&hl=en

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