Migrating-Redirecting Blogger to Wordpress: The Complete Guide!
January 30th, 2008
Ok Blokesters, I promised to deliver and here it is. This is the blog tip that you’ve all been waiting for. The absolute best way to move your Blogger blog over to Wordpress, including the elusive Holy Grail for redirecting your blog posts and keeping your blog authority and Google Juice.
One of the reasons that my writing has been sparse lately is because I’ve spent days sourcing out scripts, plugins, and documentation to figure out the best way to redirect my old Blogger posts to Wordpress.
Whew! Throughout my journey I soon discovered there is no shortage of help out there, but unfortunately none of them worked very well, or not at all.
Not one to give up easily I had to dig in my heels and get down and dirty, and I’ve finally got the answer for you. So sit back and relax (I know that I will after writing this) in the knowledge that all of your old Blogger links will continue to work.
1. Change your Domain Host DNS Settings:
Go into your Domain Name host (I use GoDaddy) and change the Nameserver setup according to your blog host’s instructions. Your blog host company should have emailed you the directions how to do this. If not, then give them a call.
Please Note: Make sure you have set up your Custom Domain on Blogger before giving control over to your new blog host. See step #3 on Blogger Custom Domains: Best Setup for Optimizing your Blog ! if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
2. Import your Blogger posts into your Wordpress blog:
You will find the Import link under the menu Manage in your Wordpress dashboard. Just follow the directions and let Wordpress perform it’s magic.
Note: If it doesn’t work, open up a wordpress.com account and import from there. Then export the file to your desktop and import it back again via your self-hosted Wordpress dashboard.
3. Park Your Old Blogger Custom Domain (if different than your New Domain Name) in your Wordpress cPanel:
If you were hosting your Custom Domain on Blogger and you are going to use a different domain name (like I did, moving from Instabloke.com to BlogBloke.com) you will have to park the old Blogger Custom Domain in your new domain’s cPanel.
This is what my cPanel looks like:
4. Create and/or Modify the ”.htaccess” file:
If you don’t have an .htaccess file you can find more information about it at the htaccess Tutorial or the Comprehensive guide to .htaccess. Be sure to make it’s file permissions writable and put it into the root directory of your blog via your blog host cPanel.
This is the Holy Grail for redirecting your old Blogger posts over to Wordpress. What’s so great about it is it’s not complicated, is easy to set up … and unlike the others I checked out — this technique actually works!
I’ve literally spent days playing and experimenting with various plugins, php code and Apache redirects and I believe I’ve found the very best (and easiest) setup for redirecting your old Blogger links to Wordpress.
This method assumes that you will be using the permalinks custom structure /%postname%/ (you will find it in your Wordpress dashboard under the Options, Permalinks, Custom Structure menus) which is the best link structure for SEO optimization.
So here is your redirect code:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9]+) http://yourblog.com/$1
Just copy and paste the above code into your .htaccess file before the line:
# BEGIN WordPress
What it all Means:
RedirectMatch
This statement calls Apache’s mod_alias module.
permanent
This tells the search engines the redirect is permanent. The old address is no longer valid and should be replaced with the new address.
^/[0-9]{4}
The first address we are matching, beginning with a four-digit year stamp.
/[0-9]{2}
This is the next address we are looking to match which will have a two-digit month stamp.
/([a-z0-9]*)
This is where (what Wordpress calls) the ”post slug” goes. It can contain any number of lowercase letters, numbers and dashes.
http://yourblog.com/$1
This is the address that we want to redirect to (i.e. your blog). The $1 variable at the end is replaced by whatever was matched in the previous statement.
Now watch the magic begin. Click on this link:
http://www.instabloke.com/2007/12/flexibile-blogging-join-revolution.html
and you will see what I mean. Keep your eye on the address bar in your browser and see how fast and seamlessly it redirects from the old blog to the new. No fuss, no muss. You will also note the .html extension has disappeared too. COOL!
(Please Note: I removed the above link because I have discontinued the instabloke.com address. There’s no sense in paying for a defunct URL that I’m no longer using. Just trust me that it works). 
From my experience there is no perfect setup that will work absolutely 100% of the time, but this should work about 99% of the time and those are pretty good odds as far as I’m concerned.
I say 99% because Murphy’s law rules and there will be (at least there was in my case) the odd link that was changed so dramatically during the import stage that the redirect couldn’t find a match. So it made a best guess that was either incorrect, or it defaulted to my user-friendly 404 page.
Chances are you didn’t fiddle with your post titles after first publishing it like I did, so you probably won’t even notice anything. Either way, it’s still automatically redirecting to my Wordpress blog and that is a good thing. I’m happy with the results and so should you.
5. Tell Blogger to STOP letting the search engines index your site:
In your Blogger Dashboard, click on “Settings“, “Basic” and scroll down to where you see “Let search engines find your blog?” Choose “No”.
You can also put the following meta tag in your template, right after the < head > tag:
< meta content=’NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW’ name=’ROBOTS’/ >
Just be sure to close up the < > brackets.
6. Switch Your Feedburner Newsfeed:
All you have to do is replace your old Blogger feed with the new Wordpress feed in your Feedburner dashboard.
If you are smart like I know you are, you will also comment-out the following code from your Header PHP file:
<!– < link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”< ?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>” /> –>
<!– < link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”< ?php bloginfo(’rss_url’); ?>” /> –>
<!– < link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”< ?php bloginfo(’atom_url’); ?>” /> –>
And replace it with:
< link href=’http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourname’ rel=’alternate’ title=’Your Full Feed’ type=’application/rss+xml’ />
Again, please close up the < > brackets .
So why why should we do this? I’m glad that you asked. We do it so our feed stats won’t be diluted. You only want to offer your readers one newsfeed option - and that is Feedburner.
Blogger also allows you to seamlessly transfer your existing subscribers. In your Blogger dashboard go to Settings, Site Feed. In the Post Feed Redirect URL box, enter your new FeedBurner address. This will redirect your subscribers.
Fix Your Internal Blogspot Links:
One more thing. If you are like me you might have internal links pointing to old posts that have a blogspot address. Internal links also count with the search engines so you don’t want to bleed your pagerank over to your dead blog.
If your blog is large like mine, trying to change each individual link can be a real pain and a time waster. Fortunately I found a solution that someone else has already solved.
Grab this Wordpress plugin and watch it perform it’s magic.
In Conclusion:
If you follow these directions correctly you shouldn’t lose any Google Juice from the move, or in other words your rank and authority should transfer to your new blog from the old as the search engines follow the redirects. It is all done automatically, working seamlessly in the background and your readers won’t even notice the difference.
Because we are using the .htaccess file for redirection it’s very F-A-S-T and easy to do as compared to trying to do the same thing with messy scripts, PHP or unsecure plugins (which don’t seem to work very well either).
Oh yes, one more thing. Whatever you do, do NOT delete your old Blogger posts or your blog either for that matter. Why? Because you want to keep your Googly Juices flowing, and if you delete your blog entirely some spammer might snap it up.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did writing it. Cheers!
P.s: You should also read Moving Blogger Over to Wordpress: The Good, Bad and the Ugly that will give you a good overview of all of the issues.
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Note to self to bookmark this for future reference… Great tutorial, Bloke, thank you. I know one day I will need this.
Right now I am happy with my Blogger blog; I really don’t have any issues to get me to stress out transferring everything over. For now, for me, it’s a matter of “if it ain’t broke”….
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Thanks Maureen. Funny that the bloggers who requested this tutorial haven’t commented yet.
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Well, I wasn’t totally what I expected ! But it certainly will be a hot post once the word gets out there !
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Oops I kept some ‘t’ to myself ! I meant ‘it’ (this post) is not what I expected .. I thought it would be much easier than this !
Great work bloke !
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Thanks Jaffer. I spent a great deal of time and effort on this post and I hope it helps.
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Thanks BB. I just have a silly question. The cPanel is part of the Wordpress Codex? I’ve ever seen that kind of panel before.
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Superb tutorial, as always. Although I’ve done much of this myself, the hard way, I did not implement the tip to stop search engines from indexing my Blogger blog the way you’ve described. I know I did something, but I can’t remember what. I went back and made that change to “no” and hopefully that takes care of any duplicate content penalties I might have incurred. I know this will help everyone who’s considering the move. I know of a couple people who are thinking about it and will send them your link.
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Thanks Bloke. Turns out since creating a google sitemap with google sitemap creator plugin. I only have 14 lost links now and most of those are comment links. I am currently using the permalink structure of /2008/01/30/postname.
I wonder If I can alter the code above and add the day code, and then change my permalinks to %/postname/% I know it is beter for search engines. I like the notify me via email of comments. I also have it on my blog and notice it gets used a lot.
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Great information, you may want to add a recipe for moving from blogspot.com… I have been trying to follow spontaneousderivation and lafers.net but both seem to be broken when redirecting internal pages.
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There’s no silly questions here TonNet. We are all dufuses in one way or another, including yours truly.
To answer your question, the cPanel is provided by your blog host provider. It is where your blog installation resides and where you perform all of your technical adjustments. It is separate from the Blogger Dashboard which is what I think you are referring to.
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Thanks Kathy, and don’t forget to redirect all of your blog posts via .htaccess. You will have change your permalink structure to use the method that I described above. You can alter the code if you like to keep your existing permalink structure, but it is not recommended for SEO optimization.
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Jake, this should also work for blogspot. Click on this link and see how it works:
http://www.blogbloke.com/2007/12/flexibile-blogging-join-revolution.html
Sweeeeeet!
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Curtis, you can’t use just %/postname/% and still have the day code. It’s either one or the other. I recommend dumping the day code and use the method that I provided. Keep it simple.
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Ok, Right now all my posts are in /year/month/day/postname. I thought maybe changing the code to RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9]+) http://yourblog.com/$1
But I see now how it would get all messed up.
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Curtis, you can try that but I would rather see you do it the SEO friendly way. Let me know how it goes.
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Gosh, I’ll have to read this over a few times. I am still going back and forth about moving over to Wordpress.
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Great tutorial, BB. Duly Stumbled
Actually it’s come at a good time because I’m thinking of moving my final Blogger site across to WordPress so I’ll be keeping this guide handy.
Cheers!
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I know what you mean DeafMom. Been there and done that. I’ve never met anyone yet who’s regretted making the move. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The deciding factor should be if you just want an online diary or a professional blog.
If you do decide to make the move then you now have a tutorial to hold your hand through the process.
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Thanks Mike. I’m looking forward to reading your guest post.
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I will get round to writing one soon. Promise!
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what if one is coming directly to wordpress from blogger blogspot? i mean if one is not using custom domain..
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also, i already deleted most of my content from my blogspot blog, problem are in the google cache still, can i just redirect people to new wordpress url using this method?
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does the RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9]+) http://yourblog.com/$1
yourblog.com, should be replaced by the my new blog’s url?or should i just leave the code as it is??
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what if i deleted all my Blogger blogspot posts already? can the cache copies be still redirected towards the new wordpress url, using this method??
pls. bear with my questions and i’m sorry if i asked one by one here..thank you
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Seems like we went to same school of Hard Knocks except I missed changing feedburner links in the Header file because I thought the FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin redirected the feeds to Feedburner.
Do both solutions (your solution and the FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin) work the same way?
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Hey Boy, try this method first with just blogspot. I think it should work and I would like to know how it works for you. So do let me know.
Redirects from Google’s cache should also work, but keep in mind once you tell Google to stop indexing the old blogspot blog the links will eventually disappear deep into the bowels of Googleland.
Yes, “yourblog.com” should be replaced with your blog’s new address.
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Debbie, FeedSmith will redirect your existing Wordpress subscribers to your Feedburner account. Changing the links in your header is a good idea so that your readers are offered just one feed option in their browser. Keep it simple — that’s my motto.
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Thank you, Bloke!
Your good idea is great for smooth sailing!
On a unrelated topic, your “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” didn’t notify me of your followup. If this only affects me than no problem since I can always check back later!
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Hmm, I wonder if anyone else has noticed it. I will give it a test myself. Thanks for the heads-up Debbie.
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WOW! My first reaction: Where was this post a month ago??!!
Wow! You really know what you’re doing. I managed to get #1, #2 and part of #5 done, but not without a lot of hair pulling, cussing under my breath and some stomping around the room in frustration.
I’m going to go back and do more of what you suggest. (and hopefully not mess anything up in the process!!)
I did notice when I tried to move from www.brandandmarket.blogspot.com directly to www.brandandmarket.com I could not import directly, but rather I had to do the “two step” by creating a brandandmarket.wordpress.com account
and then import from there to www.brandandmarket.com.
I think that step is what annoyed me the most because so many posts had said, just import from blogger into wordpress, but it wouldn’t go. I kept getting error messages from google. Silly me, it took me a while to find a post that called out that problem with the wordpress software.
Perhaps that part is fixed now & you can go directly… or perhaps I didn’t do every step, like park my blogspot in the parked domains…
Thanks so much for all the detail. I’m going to call out your post because so many of my blogging buddies have asked how I did it and I had so much frustration, I’m not sure I wanted to send them on the same path that I went down.
Chris Brown
Branding & Marketing
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Yes, I don’t why but sometimes we can only import from a wordpress.com account first. Perhaps that way they can keep track of users easier.
Welcome to he community Chris.
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Hi Bloke,
Thank you a million times over for this tutorial. I don’t know what I would have done without it.
Unfortunately, I’m having a problem getting the .htaccess and the ’NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW’ in Blogger to work. But if I understand what you said in your subsequent post, I should pretty much give up on the .htaccess. And maybe I shouldn’t do the ’NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW’ either because of the way I left the posts on my Blogger blog.
I kept the post structure, but I removed all the text in each post and replaced it with a chirpy little message telling people the blog had moved. I also included the new WordPress permalink in each old post, so if people land on an old post, they can just click on the link and be right in the same post on the new blog. You can see it here: http://myhealtharticlesblog.blogspot.com/
I don’t know if this was the right thing to do, but oh well; it’s done!
Oh, and I love your idea of having Blogger host the URL before moving over to WordPress. I have one more Blogger blog to move (in addition to one on WordPress.com), so I think I’ll try that.
Thanks again for taking the time to address all of this madness!
Carla
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You are most welcome Carla. It makes me feel all mushy inside when I hear that someone like yourself has appreciated my efforts.
Regarding “nofollow”, I just use a plugin to resolve that issue. You can get it here:
http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-fixes/dofollow/
If you don’t want the search engines to index certain docs on your Wordpress blog there are a ton of posts out there that you can Google showing you how to do it with .htaccess.
If you are having a problem with editing the .htaccess file make sure you have changed it’s file permissions in your cPanel.
Regarding changing the text in your posts, that is an extra precaution against being penalized by Google for double content. However, if you have followed my directions it shouldn’t be necessary.
Thanks for the kind comments and please drop by and talk again soon.
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Thanks so much for your answer.
My permalink structure is set for “/%postname%/” and the permissions are set correctly for .htaccess; at least I think they are. They’re set for “write.” But there’s still no redirect. Maybe I wrote the code wrong. Is the following correct? (”http://myonlinehealtharticles.com” is the new WordPress blog)
RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9]+) http://myonlinehealtharticles.com/$1 # BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
My concern is that I messed up the original .htaccess code somehow when I downloaded and changed it. Like a dope, I didn’t save an original copy of the .htaccess file, so I have no reference point.
I really appreciate your help!
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This is what my .htaccess looks like Carla:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9]+) http://blogbloke.com/$1
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
Try putting the # BEGIN WordPress part on a separate line after the redirect code. Put .htaccess file into your /public_html/ folder via your cPanel and make sure you have checked all the boxes on your file permissions so it reads “777″.
Remember, .htaccess is simply a text file and you should not create it using something like MS Word which adds extraneous code. Use something like windows notepad or the code editor in your cPanel.
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Thanks for giving me the exact code.
I think there’s some fundamental piece I’m missing here, because even with using your code/my URL, configuring it in Notepad exactly as you indicated and modifying the permissions in GoDaddy’s “Hosting Control Center,” the redirect is still not working.
Here are some screenshots of the steps I took: http://b2bcontentsolutions.com/htaccess1.htm
There was no reference to “777″ anywhere after changing the permissions, so I’m guessing I’ve been trying to modify them in the wrong location on GoDaddy’s site. Any suggestions?
You’re a saint for helping me. I appreciate it so much!
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Carla, if you click all of the boxes in your cPanel your file permissions level should read “777″. Unfortunately your Panel looks different than mine because I don’t host with GoDaddy.
Hmm, all I can think of is the .htaccess file might not be in the proper folder (i.e. the root directory). At this point I would contact GoDaddy support.
You might also want to click the link that I gave in my post for more information on .htaccess. I would also go over all the steps again in my post and make sure that you haven’t missed something.
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I’m going to call GoDaddy this morning and see what’s up. Thanks again for all your help.
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Hi Blog Bloke, been following your steps and i’ve made it to the .htaccess section. I’ve created the file, made sure it’s named only htaccess, uploaded it to root directory of blog, set the permissions to 777, changed the permalink structure. My old blogger site does not redirect at all. Could it be that i didn’t have a custom domain to park because it is a .blogspot.com address? How does blogger know to redirect if all the scripts are in my host directories? Should i be doing something at the blooger dashbaord?
Great post by the way, just this little snag to overcome. I notice that other people have mentioned no redirect too. Did you manage to solve these? Maybe i have the same issue.
Thank you
Daniel
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Daniel, have you followed step #1 and changed the Name Servers setup in your URL host (e.g. GoDaddy) according to your blog host’s instructions?
Your new blog host company should have emailed you the directions how to do this. If not, then give them a call.
Have you also left your Custom Domain setup on Blogger (i.e. don’t revert it back again to Blogspot in your publishing settings).
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Thanks for the speedy reply BB. I didn’t receive any NS in the email from my host company. I’ve emailed them and left a ticket in the help desk requesting these. That’s been 2 days so far…not impressed.
I’ll let you know if this fixes the redirect.
About the parked domain thing. I was using a .blogspot.com domain (free version). Therefore, i’m assuming I shouldn’t park it. Is that right?
Cheers.
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If you put your custom domain name in your Blogger dashboard your blogspot address will still redirect. Click on the two links below and see what I mean:
http://www.instabloke.com/2006/11/10-killer-ways-to-increase-traffic-and.html
AND
http://www.blogbloke.com/2006/11/10-killer-ways-to-increase-traffic-and.html
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I tried that but I’m not allowed to use a parse. Therefore .com/blog is not allowed. This could be the whole reason for the redirect not working. You do mention that it be used in the root directory. The thing is, I have other ideas for the .com address. I’m still waiting for the NS and IP address from my hosts. It takes the p**s really.
Hope you don’t mind me writing about my trials and tribulations on my blog?
Daniel’s last blog post..My attempt to migrate from blogger to WordPress.
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No worries Daniel. This works because I use it on this blog. I would never recommend something that I haven’t tried and tested myself.
I recommend getting rid of the /blog part in your url and keep it simple. I see no advantage to using it.
In my case I’ve put .htaccess in the /public_html/ directory that is created in a normal Wordpress installation.
I think you’re trying to get too fancy with it. Keep it simple.
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I’m sure it works and the advice you’ve provided has helped me migrate with little trouble. Some people talk of days for a migrate but I managed it in a few hours. As I say, i’m waiting for the name servers to come through and then we’ll see what happens.
If that doesn’t work then I’ll contemplate losing the pagerank and setting up a 301 redirect or moving the WP install to .com like you say.
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just… wow
what an impresive article, i can see you did the leg work for this one *claps* i applaud you
this is one of the more difficult things to do when it comes to blogging and i think you pretty much covered it
i’m using blogger’s free hosting at the moment, so it would be much harder for me to do that (since i’d have to find a domain name, a host, etc.) but the info is still good to have
mmm, could you maybe direct me to some good hosts & domain registers… my ISP only allows like 25 mb of traffic =/
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Thanks Zander. My tutorials do take a great deal of work and it’s always appreciated when I get a comment such as yours.
I use Bluefur hosting and have no complaints so far, but I’ve also heard good things about Small Orange and Dream Host.
I also use GoDaddy for my domain name.
It’s always best shop around on google for user opinions before signing up.
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Thanks for the advice,
I think I’ll stay on the free networks like blogger for now till I can make up my mind…
probably once i get enough money from adsense or my freelancing work will I start doing some serious research on which ones would be more beneficial for me.
Zander Erasmus
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hi.. the steps you’ve written here.. works like a charm..
thanks a million..
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I’m glad to hear that it worked for you Lestat. It’s comments like yours that keep me going. Cheers!
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Hello,
I wish I’d read your tutorial before I tried to make the change. I had a custom domain on blogger but right after I installed wordpress I went to blogger and switched back to my old blogspot address. I futher screwed things up by transfering my domain name publicitystuntn.com to hostgator. And now the domain name is in limbo and I can’t get into my wordpress blog because of this. I guess my question is once I get my domain to point to the wordpress blog, is there anything I can do to save my pagerank and other things? note: hostgator uploaded my blogger blog to wordpress already, I just can’t login myself to see what it looks like…any advice would be greatly appreciated
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…or better yet given my mistakes in the beginning is there anywhere I can pick up in your tutorial to get the same outcome?
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Hi Tory. It sounds like a horror story that I saw on the late night show. After you follow my directions and get things working again the right way, Google will follow the redirects and eventually update your pagerank accordingly.
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thanks for your response, I guess my question is, at what point in your tutorial should I pick up given the fact the first couple of steps I’ve already screwed up. Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks
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I would recommend starting at the beginning. That way you won’t miss any steps. Better safe than sorry is my motto. It won’t take long and it won’t hurt a bit. Promise
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Hi Blog Bloke,
I’m undertaking a blogger to self-hosted wordpress migration for a friend of mine based in the States. He currently has a .blogspot.com/ address and its being moved to a new mydomain.tv address.
My question is, do I need to convert his current blogspot.com blog to his new ‘custom’ mydomain.tv address before going through the process you describe in this post? You describe the process for converting to a custom domain in an earlier post.
As a side note, I have spent many hours looking for the solution to migrating from blogger to WP and yours certainly seems to be the most comprehensive - thanks for putting the time into this, its a big help!
Cheers,
Steane
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Hi Steane, since your friend has never converted to a Custom Domain then it isn’t necessary. The point of a redirect is to ensure the old backlinks will follow to the new Wordpress linkage structure. So in your friend’s case you can do it either way you see fit.
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Hey BlogBLOke,
i have a problem , when i include the redirect code in the htaccess file and try to access my site it is giving internal server error…
please find the screenshots here:
error: http://www.shareapic.com/public/view/full/24996
my htaccess file screenshot: http://www.shareapic.com/public/view/full/24996
i hope you will help me in this….
waiting for your reply…..
Thanks in advance
Suresh:)
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Sounds like you are making the same mistake as Javi. When you copy my code be sure that you paste it exactly as shown on one line without any spaces or line breaks.
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Blog Bloke reply on May 24th, 2008 1:25 am:
Your post seems like exactly what I need. The bad news is that it doesn’t work for me.
I have links in blogger which have the path year/month/filename.html
My new path in wordpress is /index.php/year/month/filename.html
I am expecting that someone who goes to myblog.com/year/month/postname.html is re-directed to myblog.com/index.php/year/month/postname.html
I did add index.php before $1 as in http://yourblog.com/index.php/$1
Anything I should be doing differently?
In any case, I am happy to have come across your blog.
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Like I said above — “This method assumes that you will be using the permalinks custom structure /%postname%/ “. Change your permalink options and it will work. This is the best permalink structure for SEO optimization in my opinion.
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Blog Bloke reply on May 23rd, 2008 5:17 pm:
I get an internal server error when I open my dotcom after i paste the code you provided. When I delete the code, my site goes back up again. Weird.
My blogger blog for migration has a blogspot extension still. Is there anything more I should do aside from forwarding it to my new domain name?
Appreciate the time you spend helping us folks. Thanks.
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I’m sorry but it’s impossible for me to tell with the information you’ve given me. This will work if you follow all of the steps exactly as shown. You must have missed something so try again and start over from the beginning. Also, when you copy my code be sure that you paste it exactly as shown as pure text and without any spaces or line breaks.
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I got it to work already. Instead of putting the http://yourblog.com in a second line, i didn’t break the line and now it’s working just fine. I’m not sure if I will still have to wait some time though but the redirect confirmation from blogger is driving me nuts. still at least all the links now point to my new domain. Thanks man.
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Yes, the Wordpress post editor wraps the text so it looks like it is 2 lines, but it is actually just one long line of code.
Glad you finally got it working Javi.
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Blog Bloke reply on May 24th, 2008 1:03 am:
Javi reply on May 23rd, 2008 10:26 pm:
Blog Bloke reply on May 23rd, 2008 10:21 pm:
Hey, thanks for the cool tutorial!
Unfortunately I’m having a bit of trouble. I’ve added the lines (and edited the URL) in the .htacess file on my wordpress host (goDaddy). And changed WP permalinks to /%postname%/ which is working fine.
However when I redirect my blog - http://iamcyberphobic.blogspot.com it just goes to www.blackvatican.com
This could be because I just used java to redirect it, if so, what code did you add to blogger to cause your domain to redirect properly, or did you edit the .htaccess of the domain you bought for your blogger account?
Thanks.
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Hi Flynn. You’ve confused me. If it’s redirecting then what’s the problem? Or are the individual post pages not redirecting? Neither does htaccess have anything to do with the domain so if you are using java please remove it.
You should also read my other tutorial first http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy-blogger-custom-domains-best-setup-for-optimizing-your-blog-pagerank/ to make sure you set up your blogger domain properly.
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Blog Bloke reply on June 3rd, 2008 1:14 pm:
Hey Bloke, I found your site while looking for some resources to help redirect my Blogger posts to Wordpress. Your post did the trick, with a slight tweak I found on another site.
I renamed my WP directory to ‘blog’, so that must be added to the URL. Also because of the Blogger way of putting posts in the /year/month/postname.html format, you would need to add ‘$2$3′ to the end of the URL.
RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9]+) http://www.yoursite.com/blog/$1$2$3
Thx,
JP
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Glad it helped JP, but I wouldn’t recommend using a blog subdomain for reasons that I’ve already explained here: http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy-blogger-custom-domains-best-setup-for-optimizing-your-blog-pagerank/. In the long run you will regret using a subdomain like I did. I hope I can save you that hassle.
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I’m not worried about SEO. My site gets enough word of mouth and search engine traffic that it doesn’t bother me to be less than fully optimized. Besides, the /blog/ part reminds people that it’s a blog
Thx,
JP
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JP reply on June 13th, 2008 10:34 pm:
Blog Bloke reply on June 13th, 2008 10:30 pm:
This is quite instructive. It will be of immense help to those who are afraid of leaving blogger because of the PR and backlinks they have acquired over time. Thanks for sharing.
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OK - this may seem like a really dumb question.
I used to have my blogger blog posted via FTP to an .html page on my website. I have now migrated over to Wordpress to publish to a /blog/ page on my website.
How can I tweak your process to redirect my blog posts and keep my Google juice. I currently just have a standard permanent redirect set up via cpanel.
Thanks
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It seems to me that if you revert it back to being hosted on Blogger like so:
http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy-blogger-custom-domains-best-setup-for-optimizing-your-blog-pagerank/
and then follow the instructions here it should work.
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Blog Bloke reply on June 29th, 2008 9:06 am:
Hi,
What if my blogger custom domain is the same domain I want to use with wordpress? could you please help?
Thanks!
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Not a problem Chris. Just follow the directions.
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Blog Bloke reply on June 30th, 2008 1:47 pm:
Hi,
I’ve got a problem that’s documented here:
http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-publishing/browse_thread/thread/4e907fdd44c13721?hl=en
It has to do with getting the redirect to work in Internet Explorer. How do you get Internet Explorer to accept the Blogger redirect?
Jill
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Hi Jill. Follow my directions here: http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy-blogger-custom-domains-best-setup-for-optimizing-your-blog-pagerank/ and then follow the directions in this post. It works for me and hundreds of satisfied customers.
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Hi,
I went to your other post, and when I go to this link:
http://www.blogbloke.com/
I get the exact same error message in Internet Explorer that I’m getting from going to the blog I’m working on.
So if people who use IE try to access your old blogger blog, they go nowhere….could you please verify this issue exists?
Jill
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Jill, you are trying to redirect the old blogspot address. That won’t work because I changed it to the custom domain url in the publishing settings which overrides blogspot.
Like I already said you need to first follow my directions for setting up your custom domain:
http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy-blogger-custom-domains-best-setup-for-optimizing-your-blog-pagerank/
And then implement the htaccess redirect:
http://www.blogbloke.com/migrating-redirecting-blogger-wordpress-htaccess-apache-best-method/
Just so you know that it works, click on my old address and you will see the redirect in action:
http://instabloke.com
I hope this helps.
Cheers!
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Blog Bloke reply on July 6th, 2008 4:21 pm:
Jill reply on July 6th, 2008 10:59 am:
Blog Bloke reply on July 3rd, 2008 5:42 pm:
So I wanted to tell you my situation so you could tell me if this would work for me (you would be surprise how many people don’t have tutorials on this…so thanks).
I have been writing a blog on blogger for the past 3 years. I don’t use custom domain in blogger, but I want to move over to wordpress with a new custom domain now. Will these steps still work?
What do i need to change with step 3 if i don’t use blogger custom domain?
thanks in advance.
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Hi,
Really liked your article. I am trying to migrate my site from blogger to wrodpress. I am facing some problems. Firstly, I have a custom domain on blogger, then do I need to park domain for transfering?
Secondly, I am not getting clear with the idea of .htaccess file. Not able to proceed with step 4. Can you pls explain me the step 4.
Thanks,
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No, you only need to park an old domain if you are using a different one now than what you were using previously.
.htaccess is just a text file. Use something like notepad (for windows users) to create it. Don’t use a word processor like microsoft word because it will add extraneous code.
Just copy and paste the code I gave you above into a text file and then upload it to your blog’s root directory and watch the magic begin.
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Blog Bloke reply on July 17th, 2008 5:41 pm:
I followed your instructions and everything worked great, except for one thing. It appears my redirect is just searching for the first word of the post.
so if I have two posts in my new wordpress with the title:
www.mysite.com/name-of-the-post
and
www.mysite.com/name-of-another-post
it seems to just find the “name” and go to the first one, instead of matching everything else.
Any reason why this might be happening that you know of?
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Hi Brent. Yes, the occasional title will slip through. Like I said earlier nothing is 100% foolproof, but considering the alternative 95% ain’t bad.
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Actually I figured it out. You have to put “\-” at the end or else it just reads up to the first dash.
([a-z0-9\-]*)
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Hi Brent. I’m no longer using redirects because Google has caught up and reindexed my WP blog, and I’ve removed the old blog from the SERPS. So I can’t confirm your change to the code. However I want to caution you that Wordpress might alter some of the permalinks slightly during the import process so you will never get 100% compatibility.
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UPDATE: I’ve tried Brent’s suggestion and it didn’t work for me, so I recommend using the code exactly as I’ve shown.
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Blog Bloke reply on September 8th, 2008 7:53 pm:
Blog Bloke reply on August 6th, 2008 7:39 pm:
Brent reply on August 4th, 2008 2:09 pm:
Blog Bloke reply on August 4th, 2008 2:08 pm:
Did you have any problems with your archives when you switched over? My wordpress when i go to mysite/2008/02 just goes to the homepage. I am wondering if it is because it is redirecting it there.
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That would be a problem with your theme.
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Blog Bloke reply on August 6th, 2008 3:42 pm:
You say, “copy this line”:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/([a-z0-9]+) http://yourblog.com/$1
before the
# BEGIN WordPress
But, I don’t have a “# BEGIN WordPress” in the first place? Can you share the whole .htaccess code?
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Then don’t worry about it Joly. Just go ahead and try it.
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Blog Bloke reply on August 9th, 2008 11:23 pm:
This was a great article. Thanks!
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Hey BB,
I love that you are willing to take the time to write up such helpful guides for all of us regular folks in cyberland. Your work is generous and exceptionally helpful. So, thank you. I’m about to try to redirect all the posts from my old site, www.theargentinepost.com - which is blogger-based - to my new site - www.argentinepost.com - which runs on Wordpress. In the time that has passed since you first posted this, have you learned anything new that would make you change your mind about redirecting? Are there any new plugins available that make all this a snap? Or is your original method still the best out there?
A second and final question: I bought www.theargentinepost.com from Blogger, through Godaddy. Do you know if there is any way I can free up that domain and associate it directly with my www.argentinepost.com account?
Thanks again for keeping up this blog. It is very helpful.
Cheers,
Taos
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Hi there Taos!
Those are tough questions. I’ll answer the easiest ones first.
1. There are no plugins that work as far as I know for redirecting.
2. Yes, I still think my method is the best. I spent a great deal of time investigating the issue and to my knowledge this is the best and easiest method.
3. I’m not as concerned with redirecting now as I once was because the search engines have caught up and reindexed my blog. Nevertheless, for the first few months at least I think it is important to have the redirect set up.
4. As far as your last question is concerned I’m not sure if I understand what you are asking. It’s a little confusing to me and can you give me more details?
Thanks.
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Blog Bloke,
You’re a star! Truly. Thank you so much for your kick-ass and exceptionally generous advice. I really appreciate it. If you ever make it to Argentina, check out my blog and look me up.
Take care and many thanks for keeping at this. I know I’m not the only one who very much appreciates what you’ve been doing here.
Taos
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Thank you Taos. That’s very kind of you to say so. It makes me want to keep writing all the more.
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Blog Bloke reply on October 6th, 2008 12:37 pm:
Taos Turner reply on October 5th, 2008 8:34 pm:
Blog Bloke reply on August 23rd, 2008 12:28 am:
Thanks for this tutorial. I has been wondering how to did that but now i know.
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Great post. Several of your posts have convinced me to make the move to WordPress at long last! Because of your trials and your kindness and time in posting this tutorial, I should have no problems keeping what little juice Google gave me in the first place
I’m currently tweaking the set-up in a test blog. I’ll come share the URL of my post once it goes public to my custom domain name!
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Thanks Tata, but please make sure you want to switch for reasons that are right for you and not just because of my or anyone else’s say-so. It still comes down to personal preference, and don’t forget — at least Blogger is free.
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Indeed. I’m going because I’ve been frustrated with Blogger for a lot of the same reasons as I’ve read here. My blog is small enough that free hosting should work fine for me for a while and I’ve had my own domain for a few months now. As I stated before, I’ve been playing in WordPress and I am really enjoying the new (to me) interface. Just trying to get used to it.
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tata reply on August 26th, 2008 2:33 pm:
Blog Bloke reply on August 26th, 2008 2:20 pm:
Hi!
In this tutorial, you also migrated from one custom domain to another.
Is the procedure the same (minus the parking part) if I already have a custom domain and I’m trying to move the exact one to self hosted wordpress?
I mean, the redirection thing, works the same if you’re not parking any domain?
Hope I made sense, lol. I’m a complete noob to these “domains and hosting” thing
thanks!!
Paula
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Yes, absolutely
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Blog Bloke reply on September 1st, 2008 4:46 pm:
Well hello again
I’m a little puzzled after reading *all* the comments, cause this old post that you serve like example isn’t redirecting as it should:
http://www.blogbloke.com/2007/12/flexibile-blogging-join-revolution.html
why is that? is this method no longer working? I am missing something, probably
thanks a LOT for your kindness and help, much appreciated <3
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Paula, that’s because I’ve turned off my redirects. I no longer need it because Google has caught up and reindexed everything.
So all I can say is just trust me when I say that it works. Or trust all of the people who have commented here and are using it.
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Hey, of course I trust you. I will do it. I just wanted to understand everything I was doing and how it worked (kinda) and that little bit puzzled me like I said. So that way I can learn
Thanks again.
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No worries.
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Blog Bloke reply on September 1st, 2008 9:30 pm:
Paula reply on September 1st, 2008 8:36 pm:
Blog Bloke reply on September 1st, 2008 6:10 pm:
Hi Blog Bloke
Any tips on how to fix internal links in the move? I have a Blogger blos I’m intending to migrate to Wordpress - it has more than 1000+ posts - most of them with internal linking - so it will be really a pain to fix each one by hand.
Hope you have any idea. I just only found this: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/01/how-to-move-wordpress-blog-to-new-domain-or-location/ it says something about applying a SQL command, but I’m clueless.
thanks in advance
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That’s something I’ve promised myself to look into and thanks for reminding me. I’ve made a note of it so stay tuned… sounds like another post in the making.
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Blog Bloke reply on September 23rd, 2008 12:30 pm:
I found it Cécile. Grab this nifty plugin to fix your internal blogspot links.
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Blog Bloke reply on October 10th, 2008 9:23 pm:
Hi again BlogBloke!
I finally decided to move to wordpress, already bought a domain and hosting… but then, when setting my custom domain in Blogger and that domain is pointing to my hosting, Blogger doesn’t redirect anymore: instead there’s a page saying that my blog is redirecting the user and they don’t know if it’s spam, secure or anything , and two buttons “yes and no” to continue.
I cannot believe how sad I am… I came to decide too late.
Is there anyway to surpass this problem?
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I’ve noticed that myself. It’s something that Google/Blogger has recently implemented on it’s server-side and I don’t think there is anything we can do about that. It just imposes an extra click on the reader.
I’m not concerned because it only affects IE users and what’s important is the redirects are in place. The search engines will make a note of the change and adjust accordingly the next time your site is indexed.
So don’t worry. In time it will work itself out.
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Blog Bloke reply on September 23rd, 2008 12:27 pm:
I have this great site bookmarked. Thanks, Kredit
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Nice tip, except for those of us who find this entirely too much trouble. I’ve been using Blogger since 2005 and only recently moved to “New” Blogger, which I’m not all that happy with.
I saved every post I’ve made on my hard drive because if this doesn’t work as planned…I won’t lose everything.
My question: Is there a way to just import the Blogger archives into Wordpress or does this need to be completed manually?
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Hi Georjina. Like they say “no pain, no gain”.
It may seem like a lot of work but you can do it in a few minutes and the benefits are well-worth the effort. So I highly recommend you bite the bullet and give it a whirl. Upgrading to something new may seem like a nuisance at first because of the learning curve, but it is unfortunately a necessary evil if we want to grow as a blogger.
The answer to your question is yes, you can import your Blogger posts into Wordpress.
It’s a good idea to backup your posts and a much-needed feature that Blogger has added. So even if you decide to remain on Blogger you can create a free Wordpress.com account and make another backup there as well as on your hard drive.
Thanks for the question.
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Blog Bloke reply on October 3rd, 2008 3:09 pm:
I knew it! Well, guess I’ll be walking around with an ice pack this week while I attempt to get my archives from Blogger to my Hostgator WP blog….oh, the agony:)
Thanks Bloke! Nothing like a reality check when whining seems easiest;)
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Oh, it won’t be so bad. Promise. By the way, a little whining never hurt anybody. I do it all the time. Sometimes my wife has to close the door to Blokester Central to keep the noise down.
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Blog Bloke reply on October 5th, 2008 2:24 am:
Hi there… after migrating from blogger to wordpress last night, you have NO IDEA how many blogosphere posts claim to have the answer for fixing the damned blogger urls from a redirection standpoint.
I read your stuff above and skimmed the comments. Everything is working precisely as it should, minus one point:
If I make the permalink change to make it SEO-friendly, like http://www.ariwriter.com/social-media-marketing-tip-pause/ but if the search engine points me to http://www.ariwriter.com/2008/09/social-media-marketing-tip-pause.html, it won’t redirect.
So for the time being, I changed the permalink to reflect “month and name” so http://www.ariwriter.com/2008/09/social-media-marketing-tip-pause.html redirects to http://www.ariwriter.com/2008/09/social-media-marketing-tip-pause/
Thoughts? You’re a life saver…
Ari
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Hmm, not sure why because my Blogger setup is the same and it works fine for me. All I can say is go over the settings again and make sure it’s exactly the same as I show in the post.
For example this redirects just fine:
http://www.instabloke.com/2007/12/flexibile-blogging-join-revolution.html
You also need to wait 24 hours to make sure all of your DNS settings have fully propagated.
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Blog Bloke reply on October 11th, 2008 5:20 pm:
nice post. i bookmarked it already for future reference. thanks
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THANK YOU - it worked! It might be worth emphasing that if you are on blogspot you have to redirect you blospot to your new custom domain on the blogger dashboard for anything else to work! Which it does, like a charm - except for the stupid google message you are being redirected but you can’t do anything about that!
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Happy days
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Blog Bloke reply on November 24th, 2008 2:50 pm:
Thanks for this wonderful post.
I have two questions:
1) I would like to transfer from blogger custom domain to wordpress(same domain). ie from xyz.com on blogger to xyz.com on wordpress.
Acc to step 1, we should change the Name Server settings to point to the wordpress host’s server. Don’t you think changing the “Name Server settings” BEFORE exporting the custom domain blog into wordpress will render the blog inaccessible for wordpress import functionality?
2) I read on one of the blogs that though posts, comments and users get transferred but the images doesn’t, they still hot link to the your blogger account. Were you able to transfer the images successfully through the wordpress import functionality?
I trust I am clear with my questions.
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Hi Row.
1. I think you are confusing the terms exporting and importing.
2. When you import links they stay the same. So if they are already hotlinked to Blogger then they will stay hotlinked.
I’ve heard of a plugin that can change that but I’ve also heard it has database risks so I never bothered.
Go ahead and make the switch. You’ll be happier for doing.
Thanks for dropping by.
…BB
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Blog Bloke reply on December 5th, 2008 7:08 pm:
this could have been the most helpful post i have ever found about anything….that htaccess trick was amazing and brilliant, thank-you so much.
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God-flippin-bless you. Well, if this actually works, that is. I have been seriously ready to just stick with blogger because just the idea of the move has about made me cry. The best part about this… I think I actually understand it. And I’ve got a lot of internal links and have been looking through the plug-ins to find something to reformat them. Seriously, so very helpful.
I’ll be sure to come back when it actually works. (Gotta pretty up the new site before I start sending my readers there, though.)
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Though Blogger kinda gets annoying sometimes, I think I’ll stick up with it..It’s kinda fun creating those widgets in Blogger.
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wow .. the tut looks simple.thank you for such a nice post.I have always wanted to switch over to wordpress especially after trying wordpress locally on my pc.
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Go for it!
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Blog Bloke reply on February 23rd, 2009 3:59 pm:
Thanks for the great post! I’ve been looking at how I shift my blog from its blogspot domain to thinkingcities.org, and I think I have most of the details worked out from the info here.
Just one question: my blogger feed currently has a bunch of subscribers; if I want to delete my blogger blog, is there a way to automatically redirect those subscribers to a new feed?
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@Sam, sorry for getting back so late but I have been taking a break from blogging. I wouldn’t recommend deleting your old blogger blog. Some splogger will just take the name. Turn off notifications to search engines in your settings.
On your old blog make the last post explaining you have moved and ask your readers to resubsribe the new feed. In your Blogger Settings add your new feed url where is says “Post Feed Redirect URL”.
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Blog Bloke reply on May 17th, 2009 1:01 pm:
Thank you for #5. As simple as that one is I had not thought of it at all. Went right in and changed it.
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@Laura .. yes it is often overlooked and extremely important. You don’t want to be dinged by Google for duplicate content.
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Blog Bloke reply on May 21st, 2009 5:03 am:
I have moved my blog from blogger to wordpress. But I don’t have a cpanel on my dashboard. Is this option only for those who have chosen the upgrade from wordpress? Since I am using the free version, is there something different I should be looking for to redirect my blog?
I am a novice so please keep it simple for me:)
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@Inge, Hi there. There is no cPanel with the free Wordpress version so unfortunately you cannot use htaccess to redirect your blog.
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Blog Bloke reply on June 20th, 2009 7:49 pm:
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Feb 27th, 2008 at 11:47 am
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Jun 26th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
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Jul 4th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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Aug 26th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
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Oct 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
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Nov 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
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Nov 22nd, 2008 at 12:58 am
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Nov 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am
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Dec 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am
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Dec 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
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