Bookkeeping: Website changes

Just as an fyi to keep an eye out in the near future.

I have registered the following domain: fundmymutualfund.com
(yes unbelievably that is shorter than fundmyfund.blogspot.com) I will be making this the ultimate home for the blog, once I figure out the mechanics of a transfer of content.

I did some reading this weekend on blogs in general and the consensus advice is to get your own webpage address, better sooner rather than later. Easier on the readers and easier on the blogger. Since I'm relatively inept with this whole blogging thing past simple commands such as "publish post", I am trying the simplest solution for now, in which Blogger.com let's you transfer the entire site over to a new internet address. Testing it tonight, it seems to work when I toggled it, although not without a lot of confusion on my end. However, at this moment we are staying 'here' on the blogspot address.

My concerns are with the readers who have subscribed via subscriptions in their readers and/or via email. I want to make sure that transfers over as well (or if not make it apparent in big red 25 font type), and new posts are being sent to these people who have subscribed one of the 2 ways (email or blog reader). Also the past 4-5 days have been some of the highest readership days, so I don't want to make a move I am pretty clueless regarding the implications about in the middle of heavy readership ("heavy" for a new blog at least!) So hopefully I will come up with some boring posts soon and then readership will drop off, and then I can move the site in the still of the night, Baltimore Colts style! aha!

But this move will be on the horizon, so just giving a heads up.

p.s. Did you know the average blog reader spends 90 seconds on a blog (short attention span)? I was disappointed when I first started blogging, because I saw my analytics pages showing 2:30 minutes on average ... thinking, gosh I have a boring site; very few even bother to stick around for 5 minutes! But apparently I am above average ;)