Comments on: Why Your Business Blog Shouldn’t Be On BlogSpot.com

By: Anil

Anil — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:45:09 +0000

Just catching up -- I wasn't trying to be coy, just didn't want to get into boring details. The venerable mtimport format is read/write with just about every other blogging tool out there, including TypePad.

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By: Jeffrey McManus

Jeffrey McManus — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:25:27 +0000

Like which? Does Typepad support them?

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By: Anil

Anil — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:01:22 +0000

Mike, just to clarify -- TypePad has always supported using your own domain name with your site, and that's what nearly all of the biggest TypePad users do.And Jeffrey, it's probably worth mentioning that the WP import format is only read/write with WP installs. There are other formats that, imperfect as they are, at least have interoperability between dozens of platforms.

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By: Mike Volpe

Mike Volpe — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:18:24 +0000

Thanks for the link and promoting our blog article to your readers!In addition to making a blog difficult to move, you also loose a lot of the SEO value for your blog if it is on Blogspot (or even a Typepad URL).Here is a blog article I will be publishing shortly on this subject: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/3994/

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:05:56 +0000

I have been worrying/thinking about this for a while for my blog hosted at blogspot.com. I got off of their URL last year, which is half the battle, but untangling the content and the design, and getting it into a portable format, looks like hell.

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