Moving Blog Posts From Blogger to Wordpress
Posted November 16, 2007 Written by:Flora
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If you have decided to move your blog from Blogger to Wordpress, congratulations - using Wordpress blogging software for a blog hosted on your own domain is the top choice for anyone who is serious about making money from blogging. This does not mean a wordpress.com blog, please understand that there is a big difference. If you set up a blog at Wordpress.com the situation is really very similar to Blogger - you get free use of a space on THEIR domains and they can shut you down if you break the rules. One of the main rules at Wordpress.com is that you cannot publish sponsored blog posts, so a blogger who wants to make money from writing paid reviews on their blog needs to use Wordpress blog publishing system on your web host control panel. The good news is that major web hosting companies include the latest version of Wordpress in your hosting package at no extra cost.
If you have spent a lot of time and effort writing posts on your existing Blogger Blogspot blog, then you will probably want to take them with you and it is fairly simple to do this.
Go to your Wordpress dashboard and click on to ‘manage’ - you will then see six different options, and one of these is ‘import’. Click on this and you will see the following information:
“If you have posts or comments in another system, WordPress can import those into this blog. To get started, choose a system to import from below:”
The first name on the list is ‘Blogger’. Click on this and you will see the following:
“Howdy! This importer allows you to import posts and comments from your Blogger account into your WordPress blog.
To use this importer, you must have a Google account, an upgraded (New, was Beta) blog, and it must be on blogspot or a custom domain”
Then you will be asked to authorise access to your blogger account and your Wordpress blog publisher will bring all your existing blog posts across to your new domain.
Note: once you are happy with the published posts on your new blog it is a good idea to delete the existing posts from the old blog or you could be penalised for duplicate content. If you are no longer using the old Blogspot blog you can insert a redirect code to send visitors to your new domain. This is pretty easy to do, simply place the following code on your exisiting Blogger template -
“<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”refresh” content=”3;URL=http://www.yourdomain.com”>
<TITLE>This Blog has moved!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>This Blog has moved! You will be re-directed to our new site in 3 Seconds</p>
<P>If your browser does not redirect you, click <A href=”http://www.yourdomain.com”>here</A> to go to the new Blog</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>”
