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Ok - I am going to throw a wrench in the works of this thread - let me know if I should create another thread... What are your thoughts on using a CNAME entry to point keyword.yourdomain.com to a Blogger account "yourdomain.blogspot.com" versus using ftp publishing with Blogger to actually host the blog on our server?
Do I lose any SEO benefit or authority by using the CNAME entry and letting Blogger host it? Do the search engines view this the same because of the url being used in links or the the host location matter?
In this particular case the blog has not been started yet, so I'm not worried about loss of authority, but I want to build this right from the beginning so that our site has the most benefit possible from the beginning from the content generated in the blog.
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If you want to do it right from the beginning, in the way that's going to give you the most google juice and give you the most flexibility and security going forward, install wordpress or movable type on your own hosting. Blogger is an amateur blog tool, first of all, and allowing someone else to control your content by hosting it on their server is asking for trouble. Google has been known to just disappear blogs. Putting it on hosting that you pay for, and being able to back up the whole database every time you add content, is optimal. That way if there's ever a problem you can be back up and running in minutes, instead of crying and moaning here on the forum about your blog being trashed.
WP and MT also have a lot more tools for marketing your blog than blogger does.