{"id":268,"date":"2007-05-07T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=268"},"modified":"2012-03-04T19:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:09:23","slug":"thoughts-on-blogspot-blog-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2007\/05\/07\/thoughts-on-blogspot-blog-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Blogspot Blog Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From some very preliminary research I am starting to believe that when you archive your posts at <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Blogspot<\/span> versus using FTP blogging you do not appreciate the full search engine benefits that you do when you archive them back on your own domain.<\/p>\n<p>I am doing a full blown two month test on this topic and so far just in the first week when comparing traffic results between my two blogs I am finding that hosting your blogs at <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Blogspot<\/span> is second best.<\/p>\n<p>One of my big concerns so far is that I can not see some of my posts on my Blog-World Watch where from the same day I can see my posts from Web-World Watch appear in the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">SERPs<\/span>.  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