Moving from Blogger to WordPress
Moving from Blogger to WordPress is a decision thats easy to take, but can be very difficult to implement. Or atleast lots of courage is required to start the procedure. Maintaining the Google Juice (PR, visitors, links etc.) is of prime importance. I am moving from http://thephotoshopper.blogspot.com to my own domain at http://designcranium.com
I have decided to finally move this blog over to wordpress. Contemplating for a long time (read many months), and going through tutorial after tutorial had left me confused and hopeless. Here are some links to help you get to those walkthrough’s faster…
- Devil’s guide to moving from Blogger to WordPress without loosing PR
This site has a very detailed text tutorial which helps you to direct all your traffic from blogger to your wordpress site. On the wordpress side, it checks the incoming link and directs the user to the correct post. - Tom’s jotsheet of best practices when moving your blog
Quick and Basic guide to move your data from Blogger to WordPress. But this doesnt work with Blogger Beta. - Amit’s guide on “Digital Inspiration”
A very detailed guide along with a video screen-cast. Seems to work for many people, but didnt work for me… Do give it a read though. It tries to run a PHP script on the wordpress side which converts the blogger URL to wordpress URL.
I tried the third one, but it didnt quite work. Now I am gonna try first one, which is slow (depends on search engines to automatically update the links over time), but seems a sure-shot approach to redirect most of my traffic to the new blog. Please let me know if you have tried some other guide and if it worked for you.
Signing off,
The Photoshopper
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Thanks! This will help me move to wordpress too, i hope
Yeah, these guides are pretty good.
But as you will probably notice, I am still on blogger and have just moved to my own domain.
I have done this to allow search engines to index my posts on the new domain.
BUT I have run into a problem. ALL COMMENTS ON ALL PREVIOUS POSTS have disappeared!!!
and the comments are back…
YIPPEE!!
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