We all know that blogger is not the best blogging platform when it comes to SEO because it is one of the number one choices for spammer to create dummy pages for marketing purpose and the number of limitations associated with it.
Day by day blogger is losing out in the race of CMS (Content Management System) because it doesn’t provide so much support as other CMS provide. In this blogosphere
We all know that WordPress is one of the most popular CMS and win the best CMS award last year. More and more people are shifting their blogs from blogger to WordPress because WordPress offers great support from the community and it becomes one of the best alternative why? Because WordPress offers lots of plugins to manage your blog and by this WordPress is coming as an outwitting pioneer in Blogger field.
Now the question arises how you can transfer your BlogSpot Blog to WordPress Blog? The answer to this question is as simple as no one can think. I will help you out so that you can easily migrate or import your BlogSpot blog to a WordPress blog in easy step guide, so that you can perform it without taking too much pain.
Step 1- Things to do in BlogSpot Blog
a) Log in to your BlogSpot Blog
b) After login, in Dashboard go to Settings Section
c) In Settings Section you will find the option Blog Tools
d) In Blog Tools there are three options
- Import Blog
- Export Blog
- Delete Blog
e) Now click on Export Blog Link. Clicking on this link will export most of your blog content, settings in Blogger Atom Export Format.
f) This is used to transfer the current blog to another Blog URL
g) Now click on “download blog” button, it gives you an .xml file with the current backup.
In a nut shell the whole above process can be summarized as:
Login into BlogSpot Blog> Settings Section> Blog Tools Option> Click on Export Blog> Download .xml file.
Step 2- Things to do in WordPress Blog
a) Log in to WordPress Blog
b) After login, in Dashboard go to Tools Section
c) In Tools section you will find the option Import. Now click on this option.
d) After clicking on Import Option you get the number of options. In these you have to select only the first option, i.e., Blogger
e) Now Click Blogger it will show you the text
The first thing you need to do is tell Blogger to let WordPress access your account. You will be sent back here after providing authorization.”
“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 and an upgraded (New, was Beta) blog hosted on blogspot.com or a custom domain (not FTP).
f) Now click on the authorize button. This option tells Blogger to let wordpress access your account.
g) Click on Grant Access Button and sign in to your blogger account.
h) As you grant access it will import all your BlogSpot posts and transferred to wordpress blog easily.
Step3- Now Change the URL (Do this Step Carefully)
The images hosted on blogspot blog cannot be imported on WordPress blog.
a) Again login to your wordpress admin panel and go to Settings Option.
b) Now click on “Settings Option” this will display a set of options. In this set of options you have to click only on “Permalinks Option”
c) After selecting Permalinks Option you will see number of options. In this you have to choose “Custom” option and in this you have to type the line
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html
d) This is done to match the post structure of your BlogSpot blog
e) This will minimize the number of broken links and redirects.
f) Now go to BlogSpot blog back. Click on settings of the blog.
g) In settings select “Publishing” and click on the top link i.e., “Custom Domain”.
h) Now in custom domain type your new domain, i.e., http://www.yourblog.com and save.
i) This will transfer the links automatically to your own domain
j) Still in BlogSpot blog, go to Layout
k) In Layout choose the option “Edit HTML”. After selecting this place the following code anywhere after <head> option:
<meta content='0; url=http://YOURNEWURL.com/' http-equiv='refresh'/>
l) This will send the visitors to your blog homepage directly to your new URL
m) And it is one of the safest methods of redirection in Search-Engine Optimization
n) And finally the above change in URL structure shows a warning page that they’re being taken to another domain
And Finally in the end after successful migration, delete your old blog so as to prevent from content duplicity.
Hope this will help you out. If you have any problem and want to give your suggestion please leave it in the comments section below.
Also you can use 301 Redirects to Fix your Broken links. Hope you enjoy this Article. If you are facing any Kind of Problems just Let me know By Comments below. if Possible i will help you during Weekends to resolve your problem using Team Viewer.
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I just finished my site up on Houston wedding photography. Word press is lot easier to use than people might think. It not hard to make a good looking blog fast using wordpress. I highly recommend switching over.