Blogger getting better – no more blogspot.com

One of the reasons why I switched to Wordpress from Blogger (though there were many) was the fact that you had to have “blogspot.com” in your website URL. My old site was at http://nickrice.blogspot.com. There are a lot of splogs on blogger and I didn’t want to be associated with that. Well they recently implemented a new feature that allows you to use your own domain name. So if you already own a domain for your website, like www.yoursite.com, you can use Blogger software to power your blog while using your domain (www.yoursite.com/blog). This will help with integration into an existing website. Even though it’s free, most businesses do not want to co-brand their blog with Google. And it will help with Google page ranking because you’ll have more pages and consistent publishing your own domain name. This isn’t enough to make me go back. That would take a miracle – Wordpress rocks. But I am happy to see them moving in a direction that is appealing to more serious bloggers. It’s not like the medium is going away – and they need to regain some respect from the established bloggers to offset their reputation.