You may have read my prior posts about moving blogs from a free blogging platform such as Blogger to your own domain. Back in March I wrote a two part step-by-step guide to relocate blogs from a free platform onto their own domain. Part one and part two of that article may be of interest to you. As I mentioned in those two articles, I had plans to migrate my other two blogs from their free platform, but other projects have been too pressing.

In addition to that, I’ve been totally stuck on what the domain name should be for one of my blogs to move it off Blogger. After much consideration either way, although I would prefer to have all my blogs on my own domains I’ve arrived at the decision to leave both my other blogs on Blogger for now. For now I will simply have to make the best of blogging for free on the Blogger platform for those two blogs! I guess that’s one reason why I just didn’t get any inspiration for the right name for one of the two.

Although I know I may regret it later by not relocating them sooner, I should have done that many months ago prior to the blogs developing their page rank, which I didn’t even focus much on developing since I had intended to move them. The only linking efforts I’ve done with my blogs for the most part is by participating in the Link & Blog Challenges, and it’s been mighty fun in the process!

In regards to holding off on relocating my blogs from the Blogger platform, you may wish to call me crazy for not relocating the two blogs, but I also feel I would rather create some new blogs rather than taking the time to re-hash the two I already have. I guess it’s just sort of the mood I’m in for now, but even so my other priorities for Link and Blog Challenge are first in line.

As you know, developing traffic takes time and I again feel that perhaps the time is better devoted to my other areas of focus with the projects I have, which are more pressing at the time. First and foremost, Link and Blog Challenge is my priority in order to provide our members with a greater community environment. Since I’ve decided to leave my other two blogs on Blogger for the present time, I’m actually somewhat relieved with my decision, as it’s reducing the level of stress due to other time constraints I have. Just as with myself, if you’re planning to migrate your blogs off a free platform and onto your own, the timing indeed has to be right for you.

I do want to mention one last point in regards to this topic. The longer you develop and promote your blog from a free platform the more difficult of a task it is of course to move it. Plus the more difficult it is to mentally overcome the fact that you have to start all over again with establishing your page rank and Alexa rank.

In order to avoid the same decisions I’m faced with, if you have been blogging on a free platform and had begun to do so only recently, I encourage you to run this question through your mind. Ask yourself if you feel you will want to continue your blog long term. If so, then seriously consider relocating your blog to it’s own domain before you put so much effort into it that it makes it a difficult decision later.

Either way, consider your personal needs when making your decision. With moving a blog to your own domain there should not ever be a reason why you would regret it, but I can tell you it’s easy to feel regret establishing a good blog on a free domain. Free is certainly nice, but it has it’s drawbacks and mainly due to the fact that you do not have full control over a site on a free domain. Happy blogging!