Okay. I moved my blog from costumingdiary.blogspot.com to dressdiary.blogspot.com.
Then I changed dressdiary.blogspot.com to costumingdiary.com
I'm trying to let Google know that costumingdiary.blogspot.com is now costumingdiary.com
I have the change of address in Google Webmasters up. I am stuck at this error message:
Confirm that 301-redirects work properly URLs from your old site should be redirected to your new site using permanent 301-redirect directives. We couldn't find any 301-redirect directives for your site. For more details check the Fetch as Google tool.
I don't have access to .htacess files, and am not sure how to fix this.
How do I get this part done? Or is there a different way to notify Google of the change?
The fact that you created a stub blog at the old address : good.
Using a meta refresh on it to redirect it : bad - don't be surprised if Blogger removes the blog for breaking the TOS at some point. A javascript redirect would be just as bad.
Also, it appears you didn't set Blogger Post Feed Redirect to redirect http://costumingdiary.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default to http://www.costumingdiary.com/feeds/posts/default
One somewhat costly option would be to publish costumingdiary.blogspot.com to different custom domain, then use the domain registrar settings to redirect/forward/mask it the to the older custom domain.
I see you've posted in the official Blogger support forums a few times - you changed the blogspot URLs the other way around 3 years ago.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/03/renaming-your-blog-planning-change.html http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/05/redirecting-traffic-between-blogspot.html
You could edit http://costumingdiary.blogspot.com/robots.txt to use the same sitemap as http://www.costumingdiary.com/robots.txt , or http://www.costumingdiary.com/sitemap.xml .