Move from Blogger to WordPress without loosing traffic & SEO

Move from Blogger to WordPress easily without loosing traffic and SEO.

If you move your blog over from Blogger to WordPress there are a few things that you are going to want to maintain (not lose). You do not want to lose your traffic numbers, and you do not want to lose the people who have signed up to your RSS feed. You do not want to lose all of your search engine optimization (SEO), and you want to ensure that all of your blog posts are transferred over successfully and without breaking any link. You may also wish to customize your WordPress blog so that it looks the same as it did when you were using Blogger.

JUST FOLLOW BELOW STEPS TO TRANSFER FROM BLOGGER TO WORDPRES EASILY

REVERT TO A BLOGSPOT SUB DOMAIN

If you have a BlogSpot site that is operating under the same domain that you are planning to use for your WordPress blog, you are going to have to go into Bloggers settings and revert to publishing under a BlogSpot sub domain.

DNS

DNS entries need to be set so that they point towards your host account. You may now install WordPress. Use your cPanel’s auto installer to install WordPress.

GO TO YOUR WORDPRESS DASHBOARD

Find the settings and go to Permalinks. New select the option called “Custom Structure.” Next to this you should paste this and save the changes after you do:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

What you are attempting to do is keep your permalinks intact whilst also making them look like they are blogger URLs. Be careful when trying to change permalinks and URLs because things such as Facebook “Likes” may revert to zero, and it is really, really annoying when they do.

IMPORT YOUR BLOG POSTS

You want to move them from Blogger to WordPress, so you need to go to Blogger and click on the “Tools” option. Go into the “Import” options and select your Blogger options. You are going to need a WordPress importer plugin. A pop up will come up and you are going to need to click to install the “Importer plugin.”

ACTIVATE YOUR PLUGIN

A screen will pop up asking you to activate your plugin. It may say something such as “Grant access.” You need to click so as to activate the plugin and run the importer. You will definitely be asked to grant access when it comes to your Google account. Click to grant access and log into a Google account.

BACK TO BLOGGER

You have granted access and are now returned to Blogger where you can click the import button to import your posts to WordPress. You will have to wait for your blog posts and associated comments to transfer over to WordPress. Your static pages will not import over automatically. You are going to have to import them over manually.

REFRESH

After sufficient time has passed for all the blog posts to transfer and static pages are imported, you may refresh your WordPress blog. It will show you all of your blog posts. Adjust your linksEarlier you changed your URLs so that they looked the same in WordPress as they do in Blogger. The problem is that WordPress URLs are longer than Blogger URLs. Your URLs are structured the same way but are not exactly the same and so will generate Error 404 for pages “Not Found.”

You are going to have to copy the text below onto a notepad and save the notepad as fixlinks.php

<?php require_once(‘wp-load.php’); $res = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT post_id, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘blogger_permalink’”); $wpdb->print_error();foreach ($res as $row){ $slug = explode(“/”,$row->meta_value); $slug = explode(“.”,$slug[3]);$wpdb->query(“UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET post_name =’” . $slug[0] . “‘ WHERE ID = $row->post_id”); $wpdb->print_error(); } echo “DONE”; ?>

Upload the file You need to upload it to your public_html or your folder that you keep your WordPress blog installation in. You will have to run the script thusly: http://your-blog.com/fixlinks.php

Done

If you see the word DONE written on the computer screen you can rest easy knowing that your permalinks are fixed. Run a Google search on your pages to be sure that everything is okay and so you can see than no “Error 404” pages come up.

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