I haven’t writen a blog post recently because I just moved from blogger to wordpress and going back to the post I wrote on choosing the better platform between blogger and wordpress, I made mention of moving over to wordpress someday but I didn’t even know back then it would be so soon! Anyway, I did migrate and everything went smoothly, all my blog posts were successfully imported and there was absolutely no broken links. I was rather skeptical about the whole thing at first but I never knew it would be so easy, the only hard part was customizing my new wordpress theme to look similar to the one I used on blogger so it would look like nothing changed at all.
Moving from blogger to wordpress has quite lots of advantages ranging from better SEO to freedom to do ‘whatever’. That’s not the main issue here and I suggest you read this post if you’re wondering whether you need to use wordpress or blogger. If you’ve already made up your mind and want to move your blog posts and comments from blogger to wordpress without breaking anything, read on. We’re surely achieving four major aims by doing this:
1. Moving all blog posts and comments
2. Maintaining all links without generation any error 404
3. Retaining feed subscribers, posts facebook likes and tweets
4. Maintaing your traffic and google pagerank
Seriously, importing your blog posts from blogger to wordpress and so simple and you should be done in just a few minutes if you followed everything correctly. Hey, I’m assuming your blogger’s blog is already hosted under a custom domain, right? If you’re still using a blog spot sub domain, it might be a bit difficult achieving all the four goals set above. The only thing you can do in such case is to redirect your blogspot site to your new domain on wordpress but this isn’t even ideal. The best way to migrate is when you already have blogger’s blog pointed to a custom doamain, the domain you’re gonna be using for your wordpress site.
You still don’t understand? Well, my blogspot site was www.doncaprio.com, ok? And I chose to move my stuffs from blogger to wordpress still using the same www.doncaprio.com. All the goals set above would have been impossible to meet if I was using doncaprio.blogspot.com, the only thing I could do was to redirect traffic from doncaprio.blogspot.com to www.doncaprio.com.
The move is super easy if you already have your blogspot site running on a custom domain for a long time.
Alright, enough of the story and back to the real business!
1. If your blogspot site is using the same domain you want to use for your new wordpress blog, go to blogger settings and revert back to publishing under blogspot sub doamin.
2. Set your DNS entries to point to your hosting account and Install wordpress. It’s easier doing it using the auto installer on your cPanel. Log in to cPanel and locate Fantastico Deluxe, Simple Scripts, Elephante Installer or any other one-click installer provided by your web host.
3. From your WordPress Dashboard, go to Settings > Permalinks and then select Custom Structure option. Paste the following value next to it and save changes.
The main essence of this is to keep your permalinks intact, making them look like blogger URLs. Personally, I won’t advice you to use something different at this time but you can definitely change it later. I’m not sure I’m gonna change mine because it means reverting facebook like counts back to zero whereas I have a single post with almost 700 facebook likes! 
I don’t wanna lose that 
4. The next step is importing your blog posts from wordpress to blogger. Go to Tools -> Import options and select Blogger options.
5. A pop-up box will appear, click on Install Plugin to install the importer plugin in WordPress.
6. Click on Activate Plugin & Run Importer. You’re asked to grant access to your google account. Click on Grant Access and you may be prompted to login to your google account if you’re not already signed in.
7. Once you grant access, you will be taken back to the Blogger importer on WordPress. If you have more than one blog on your Blogger account, you will see all of them listed here. Just click on the import button next to the blog that you want to import into WordPress.
8. Now you have to wait for some minutes because the time it’s going to take depends on the number of posts you have. I imported 271 posts and over 1000 comments in less than five minutes.
At this point, you should note that only blog posts and comments are imported, your static pages are not imported. You have to do this manually.
If the import button changes to continue, hit the button till the process completes and Set Authors is displayed on the button.
9. You can now refresh your wordpress blog and see your posts on blogger show up. Wait a minutes, we’re not done here.
10. In step 3, we configured wordpress permalinks to look similar to blogger permalinks in order to retain traffic and search engine optimization, right? There’s likely to be a little problem though – wordpress links may look a bit longer than your original blogger permalinks.
Check out this blogger permalink:
http://www.doncaprio.com/2011/how-to-move-you-blog-posts-from.html
It’s gonna look like this when it becomes a wordpress permalink:
http://www.doncaprio.com/2011/how-to-move-you-blog-posts-from-blogger-to-wordpress-without-losing-traffic.html
Both permalinks have the same structure but the slug is different and we must make it look exactly like it was on blogger in order to make search traffic point to that very blog post instead of your visitors getting Error 404 (Not Found).
Copy the code below to a notepad and save it as fixlinks.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";
?>
11. Now upload this to your public_html or the folder in which your wordpress blog is installed. Run the script like this: http://your-blog.com/fixlinks.php
The moment you do this, you should see DONE written on your computer screen. That’s all, the permalinks are now fixed.
You can run a search on google for your old blog posts and click on it to verify if everything is working fine.
Moving Your Blogger Feed Subscribers Over To WordPress
If you’ve been using feedburner on your blogger’s blog, all you need to do is to log in to your feedburner account and edit feed details with the new wordpress RSS feed. Your subscribers count remain intact but it’s a different case if you haven’t been using feedburner.
If you’re not using feedburner, you’re going to redirect your old blogger RSS feed address to WordPress RSS feed URL by editing your .htaccess file and pasting the following piece of code on the first line:
RewriteRule atom.xml feed/atom/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule feeds/posts/default feed/atom/ [L,R=301]
#RSS FEEDS
RewriteRule feeds/posts/default?alt=rss feed/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule rss.xml feed/ [L,R=301]
#Comments Feed
RewriteRule /feeds/comments/default comments/feed/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule /feeds/comments/default?alt=rss comments/feed/ [L,R=301]
Retaining Facebook likes, tweets and other sharing counts
If you intend to change you sharing counts, then you won’t have to change your permalinks. I wanted to change my permalinks to a much nicer one but realized my facebook likes on blog posts reverted back to zero and there was absolutely no way to fix it despite running frantic searches on google.
Removing Your Old blogspot Site From Google Index
First and foremost, I must warn you never to delete your blogger’s blog because your blog images are still hosted on blogger. Notwithstanding, you must remove your blogspot site from google’s index. Why? Having similar contents on the same blog can get you penalized by google and drop your search engine ranking. To remove your blogspot from google, paste this code in the head section of your blog
Now you’re done. Log in to your wordpress blog, get used to the interface and install cool plugins!
Know Issues With Migrating Blog Posts From Blogger To WordPress
While importing my blog posts, I encountered a problem which someone else might come across and that was on Step 6. I saw exactly this error:
The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:
The site “http://example.com” has not been registered.
The fix for this is registering your domain with google to access all google’s services by following this link: https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains
- Enter your domain name in the box provided, ex., doncaprio.com
- Click on Manage Domain
- Select Alternate Method which is much more easier if you don’t want to mess around with DNS settings.
- You wil be given an HTML file to upload after which you will click the Verify button.
- Add your domain name and description and save
- Save OAuth key and OAuth secrete for your future reference
- Now you domain is registered
I hope I can come to ilesha to learn all this directly frm u..THUMBS UP BOSS.
Thanks for the compliment, bro…but it's real easy if the procedure is closely followed
Nice POst. I feel the custom domain will reduce the traffic for short period of time. That’s my experience.
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Wow Bro.This Tutorial is tha bomb, long but neatly made and comprehensive. One question, how did you get the two permalinks you used as an example
blogger permalink:
http://www.doncaprio.com/2011/how-to-move-you-blog-posts-from.html
and
wordpress permalink:
http://www.doncaprio.com/2011/how-to-move-you-blog-posts-from-blogger-to-wordpress-without-losing-traffic.htm
Does it it mean you created this post via Blogger Or??
I only used those as a random examples, the post was created here on wordpress but that is how it would look like if it were on blogger. There’s a limit on the number of characters allowed in permalinks.
Don I believe that Google is the best thing to be associated with on the internet. Blogger is one of its associates as you can login using Google account. So do you think its wise to switch from Blogger to WordPress? and Why? In my opinion anything linked with Google will score better with Google in the future if not now.
I agree with you that a product associated with google scores better but Blogger has certain limitations. Things get done easily on wordpress with plugins but you’ve got lots of editing to do if you’re to the the same on Blogger. You can read this post to see what I’m driving at: http://www.doncaprio.com/2011/10/better-wordpress-or-blogger-choose.html
Nice post. I like your post with detailed information.
Thanks for the compliment, Prabhu
This is fantastic. It all worked for me. My question is when you say paste the following:
in the header, is that done in the css or just paste it right on the blog.
Thanks.
Jason
I’m glad you found it useful. it’s in the head section, anywhere between the opening and closing head tag.
the code I pasted above did not show up. it,s the code that tells google not to search the blog anymore.
Thanks
Jason
It’s right in the template. Just search for
</head>in the template and paste it right before it.dude you’re my fkin hero…thankyou verymuch for this post
You’re much welcome
Awesome man,,, What a simple explanation for fixing permalink…) Hats off )
You’re welcome, bro. I can see you’re still working on your blog!
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Please provide the process How can we change address link from .wordpress.com to .tk Dns server like eblog24.wordpress.com to eblog24.tk
sorry for giving address. But you might understand.
Yap Awesome man,,, What a simple explanation for fixing permalink…) Hats off )
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Glad it was helpful, Ricko.
Hi, i just recently moved from blogspot with custom domain to my own hosting and the same domain. I’ve chosen the “blogger style” of the links but now when i search myself on google, the results take me to my “The page you requested could not be found.” So i made the php file but when i try to run-it, i get the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mackunet/public_html/fixlinks.php on line 3
Please, it’s really important to keep my “connection” with google. Thanks
You can try using this, it’s the exact script I used to fix mine – http://www.doncaprio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/fixlinks.zip
unzip the content and upload.
I really want to move my site to wordpress, but i don’t know much about htaccess. Please can you tell me how and where i can find it? Between can we still have the same background/theme/template on wordpress? Like when i move my blog here can i still retain the background? please let me know, thanks.
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WordPress on my mind!!! Thanks for this post,
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This is a cool and nice post. i ve successfully mmigrated from blogger to wordpress and i have a piece of advice for those who are yet to migrate. when migrating try and use Google chrome, so as to by pass all the errors stated above in the post.
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Thanks for great tutorial DON, I also plan to move my blogger blog to WP. Please tell me is this is the right step, I need your feedback…….
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It’s a great idea, Varinder. I moved last year and I didn’t regret it. WordPress rocks! Just make sure you fix you permalinks so as not to lose your search engine traffic.
Thank You! for your great suggestion, Permalink is one of the most important thing to do in WP after moving Blogger into WP.
Thanks a lot man, you’ve made my day. And as for those who are wondering why is it wise to move from blogger to WordPress, Google has a habit of deleting your blog without no reason and worse, without no warning. Sometimes, it happens due to a mistake by Google bot (checkout official Blogger group and you’ll find plethora of cases like these). In the end, its the blog owner that suffers. Secondly, if someday, you decide that its time to sell your blog, you’ll find that WordPress blog will have a lot of potential buyers as compared to Blogger hosted Blog. So my advice, get rid of Blogger as soon as you can.
You got that right, Mark! Thanks for dropping by.
I think about to move my 2 blogs to WordPress, but I afraid it will impact on my position in Google….
1. http://www.tiptopblogging.com/ – this is the first one
2. http://clear-code.blogspot.com/ – second one
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The method looks quite hard can anybidy do this for me
It’s very simple, Vipul. Just read it and follow the steps one at at time.
I also plan to move my blogger blog wordpress. which is best wordpress hosting company ?
my domain registrar:bigrock
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That’s a good move you’re not going to regret. I’m using Hostagor and I can recommend their service.
I’m having some problems in “Step-8″. I keep on pressing continue button for more than an hour but nothing happens… I have around 800 post & 150 comments…. When I give it a second try 50 post gets exported with all 150 comments…. I keep on repeating the same but only comments being exported with 5-10 post n these all post are duplicated with duplicated comments… Now all I have in my wordpress account is 126 post (many of them are duplicated) & 1500 comments (All are duplicated)….
Please solve this issue….
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I understand you’ve finally fixed it. Happy blogging!
After i moved my blogger to wordpress, my domain name, http://www.tripozia.co.cc and my pages where not moved. My new blog was tripozia.wordpress.com. What can be done?
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Hi, I found this guide from search and decided to move ahead with transferring one of the site I hosted in Blogger. Followed all your guidance and at the end stage while going to Google Account. it gives me the following error.
The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:
The site mydomain.com has not been registered.
Ok. The method you are suggesting is to keep all the blogger posts and I don’t want to lose any of my posts. I did some search and found some plugins to do this job, but it does not guarantee that the blogger posts wont be lost.
Any suggestions?
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I gave a solution in the concluding part of this post – Know Issues With Migrating Blog Posts From Blogger To WordPress
It’s can be fixed easily. Moreover, you cant lose your posts if you follow this guide closely.
Thanks Don! I have to do the whole process again.
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This was the blog I was trying to migrate. I haven’t lost a single post. Thanks so much for the help and this post. Sharing it in my G+
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Please let me know if you’re looking for a article writer for your blog. You have some really good articles and I feel I would be a good asset. If you ever want to take some of the load off, I’d really like to write some material for your blog in exchange for a link back to mine. Please shoot me an e-mail if interested. Many thanks!
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I also want to move from blogger to wordpress. But when you said we should first get the domain ready. How are we going to do this. For example my blog is http://www.surestinfo.blogspot.com if i want to change it to .com so i can use wordpress how and where can i do it.
I just heard that is hard to monetize on WordPress blog rather than blogger. Why is everyone eager to move to WordPress?
Yes, it’s hard to monetize WordPress.com blogs, not self-hosted WP blogs.
Thanks for this simple explanation.. thinking of moving http://www.stalyfblog.com to wordpress soon.
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A very great thanks! Just I wana ask u one thing! If I will shift to wordpress from blogger, then what will be happen with my labels in blogger.the link to my labels page wil give error or not
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Since Label pages are not indexed on Google search, I don’t think you have to worry about that. I also lost the label pages but it didn’t affect me. The most import are your post permalinks.
well first i will give you credit where it belong, man you kill it all here with this post. i enjoyed going through it is straight forward tutorial I’mma implement it now..
Thanks Man
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You’re very we;come, Clem. I’m glad you found the piece useful.
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Am currently on blogger, and i might be migrating to wordpress very soon. This will surely help. Thanks
Twitter: augustusvibe
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I finally moved my blog from blogger to WordPress and it was highly successful, thanks to Don Caprio
Thanks for this tutorial.
Do you know if this would work on WordPress Multisite? How would you need to modify the script to only work on one specific blog. Ultimately the clients site is on it’s own domain. But the core of WP is multisite and the domain is mapped.
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I’ve never tried this on a WordPress Multisite and my I’m afraid of giving recommendations because it might mess up other sites. I don’t know if it’s safe, Kurt.
Thanks for the reply.
I notice you didn’t mention images in your tutorial. In my experience of trying to move a large blog (1600 posts/18000 comments) across to Word Press, all the links to the photos still point to the Google servers, they are not imported across to my own server.
Also internal links between blog posts still pointed to the old blogspot site not the new WordPress site.
The project stalled because of these two issues and I’ve left it to run as it was on Blogspot.
Steve
The images will have to remain on google’s server. Since they’re stored in your Picassa web album (associated with your Google account), I think they’re safe. My images are still on blogspot too, it’s been almost a year now and there hasn’t been any problem so far and I doubt if there’ll ever be one.
If you’ve been using a custom domain on blogspot and you’ll be using the same custom domain on WordPress, the internal links will work just fine and there won’t be any broken link. It’s different if you’re still using .blogspot subdomain though; you may have to edit each post.
Regards.
Thanks I have done with this.
Thanks for this post seriously. I am really tired of blogger tho. tanx once again
You’re welcome, Jack. Glad you found the post useful.
Twitter: divyanshojha
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Hi Don
I did all of this… But theres an important question i want to ask you
1. Should i delete my old blog or just delete the posts in it… bcause it might act as a copied blog and search engine might not index the site thinking its a copied one.
What should i do to the old blogger blog ?
( and commentluv is also not catching my old feed address, what should i do to my feed address – currently it is something like feedburner.com/yourcyberguide
You can set the old blog to noindex, or just unpublish all the posts. You may also delete it. Since your blog images are in ur Picassa web album, I don’t think your new WP blog should be affected.
Go to feed burner, edit your feed detail and burn that same feed again with ur new Worpress feed, something like http://yoursite.com/feed
Twitter: divyanshojha
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Theres another question…..
If i change the permalink structure to old blogger permalinks…then will i be able to generate custom permalinks for new post or will they also have limitation of 30 characters
No, future permalinks won’t be limited to 30.
Twitter: divyanshojha
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i did this fixlinks.php on folder . it displayed done but still the permalinks are not restored
Twitter: divyanshojha
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alright its done.
Forgot to put .html at the end..
all my fb likes are back .
This was easier than anything else on internet . thks!
You’re welcome, bro.
I moved my blog over to WordPress successfully (still needs a lot of work, but it’s there). It’s at http://www.heatherdriveblog.com. However, when I go to the Blogger address (http://heatherdrive.blogspot.com), it doesn’t redirect. Is it not supposed to? What are my options for if someone tries to access my blog through the blogspot.com address? I’ve had my custom domain for a few years but that doesn’t necessarily mean that people aren’t still using the blogspot address to get to my blog. Thanks!
You can place a certain meta tag in the head section. It’s explained here.
I like that Platform template you’re using. It looks simple but beautiful. If I may suggest, generate thumbnails for your posts using Auto Generate Thumnails plugin.
Regards.
Don–Thanks, I’ll check out the meta tag you linked to, that is very helpful.
And funny you should mention the thumbnails… I was just trying to figure that part out! I didn’t know about the plug-in, I’ll look for that too!
My biggest problem with WordPress so far is that it seems that when I make changes to the appearance/theme/format, they don’t show up when I go to “check” them on the blog! What gives? I tried unchecking some of the cache boxes within the WP settings, but I am still having trouble with it.
I’m glad that was helpful. I sometimes do a hard refresh before changes actually reflect. CTRL + R (if you’re using Windows, that is).
Don, I’m sorry to keep coming back here to ask more questions, but you seem to know all the tricks of the trade! I am trying to use the auto generate thumbnails plug-ins you mentioned… but they don’t seem to be working. If my images are embedded in my posts but hosted on Flickr, does it not work? Also, this may be theme-specific, but I can’t seem to figure out how to configure the settings to enable the thumbnails within the layout? I’m starting to wonder if that’s only available on the paid version (in which case, boooo).
Twitter: AnonymousIRC_
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bro plz explain this
“log in to your feedburner account and edit feed details with the new wordpress RSS feed. ”
I CANT DO IT
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OK, Don…I’m back with another question/issue. So I thought I was all set, but I just came to realize that there are still some heatherdrive.blogspot.com links floating around out there in internet space… including on my own blog from back in the day. Like I said before, I’ve been using my own domain name for a while (www.heatherdriveblog.com), but now that I moved the domain name to WordPress, anytime someone clicks on a heatherdrive.blogspot.com link–not just the homepage, but specific blog posts–it takes them to the old blogger site. If you wait several seconds, it does redirect (it sucks that it takes so long to do so!), but it only redirects to my new homepage… not to the page they are looking for. Know what I mean? Is there anything I can do to fix this? I know I can seek out heatherdrive.blogspot.com links on my own site and change them, but I’d still like to come up with a solution for those who are trying to access my blog via old links. Thanks.
That’s one thing I had to live with when I was moving too. Since Blogger didn’t offer client-side redirection then, I had to give up redirecting each post on the old blogger sub domain to the corresponding one on the new wordpress custom domain.
I later discovered a way to do but I don’t know if it still works, it’s been a long time – http://www.doncaprio.com/2011/04/redirect-blogger-another-blogspot.html
Hope it works for you.
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Hey man,
This is great tutorial dude. I found this on Google and this will help me move a friend’s site to WordPress.
Thanks for the tut
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Hi Einstein,
The pleasure’s mine, bro. Glad you actually found the tutorial useful.
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Nice post. But I’d like to ask. I already have a self hosted domain blog on WordPress.. But I still love to move my post on my blogspot to the new website. Whats the easy way to do that now please. I’ appreciate your help.
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You can simply use steps 4, 5, 6 and 7.
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Thanq Doncarpio my site now change in wp by help of u .thaq a lot more
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You’re much welcome.
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Why would you keep your old Blogspot blog from listing in Google. Is that not bad for the SEO of your current blog?
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Yes, I believe. It may be seen as duplicate content.
Hi Don, thanks for this post, I have just done thing and still have questions. I had a domain pointed to my blogger blog and when I went to WordPress, I had Godaddy point that domain to my new WordPress site. I never got more than 100 or so visitors in the four years the site has been up. Like you said when I transferred my site, all the comments, videos and pictures were transferred perfectly! Yeah! So this means that my backlinks were transferred as well? To avoid duplicate content, do I delete my original blogspot blog?
If you uploaded those pictures and video to Blogger, I would suggest you revert the posts to draft or de-index the blogger blog instead of totally deleting the whole blog. Yes, so far you’re still using the same domain name, your backlinks are still intact and relevant.
Kind regards.
Great Stuff !! really useful i enjoyed when read.i would like to share with my friends so it can be also useful them.
Helo Doncaprio,
I followed your tutorial in moving our blog to wordpress in march.
I also used the customize permalinks as you said, and everything worked brilliantly.
However, in early november,I changed my permalinks, so as to optimize our website and reduce server load to /%year%/%postname/ and had no idea of any such thing as redirection.
Now all our previously published post under the /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html permalink displays post not found, over 2,000 posts, and right now, I am confused on what to do because I just discovered yesterday after a month, when I saw page views dropping, and I tried to search for one of our blog post to discover it.
So I reverted back to the previous /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html but its still d same, and I don’t know what to do.
The blog URL is : http://www.nigerianuniversitynews.com.
I would appreciate your help, and also tips to optimize the website and reduce server load, because our hosting company are complaining of high server load.
Expect your reply soon.
It’s a very dangerous messing around with your permalink settings. I’ve never ran into such problems. I’m afraid I may not be able to help.
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and what happens if I have a custom domain on blogger “www.buymyclosetblog.com” and I want to move that domain to wordpress?? I should I do??
Did you buy the custom domain through Blogger. You have to log in to your domain registrar dashboard and change the nameservers to point to your new host first.
Thinking to change from blogger to wordpress.Your post is very helpful,
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Hi,
This was so helpful overall! I recently moved from blogger to WP and followed this exactly. Unfortunately, I missed the boat on the fixing of hte permalinks, but have managed to 301 redirect thanks to a handy plug in.
I am still having two issues that I haven’t been able to address, despite hours of searching and experimenting.
ISSUE ONE: I fixed all of my old blogger links to 301 redirect successfully, but my old blog is still sometimes visible! I had 31 hits just yesterday. I have updated my privacy settings to hide my blogger blog from search engines and not be visible on blogger. I also removed my custom domain from blogger already as well. HELP!
Additional issue: Despite submitting a new site map and reindexing my pages for my WP blog, I am not visible in search engines, although I was very visible previously. Am I being penalized?? Any thoughts on how to fix.
THANK YOU!
Erin
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http://www.thelawstudentswife.com
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For the first issue, it’s going to take some time before Google finally removes it from it’s index since you’ve already updates your privacy settings as required.
For the second issue, I suggest you install Google XML sitemap and submit http://www.your-site.com/sitemap.xml as sitemap
Twitter: IAMPAROH
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Man thanks a lot for the advice. My blog is all set up now. I’m kinda jealous though. I’m seeing amazing plugins here, and I can’t seem to get them by searching. Advice me biko. My blog is http://www.nerduwrites.com Thank you.
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Actually, I use very few plugins here. Most of the features are manually added. But I suggest you use nRelate Related Posts, nRelate Flyout, Google XML Sitemap, RDFA breadcrumd. The rest are based on Genesis functions or manually added.
Twitter: gadget_price
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Hi
just guide me how to http://your-blog.com/fixlinks.php get it done as i am not aware of root folders i am moving from blogspot to wordpress
Thanks
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It has to be something like http://mobilemarketprice.com/fixlinks.php after you must have uploaded it to public_html. Be sure you delete it afterwards
Twitter: dawatech
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Am so happy and greatful with this awesome and useful post cos i moved my blog from blogger to wordpress succcesfully without any problem…thks don
Twitter: dawatech
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Am so happy and greatful with this awesome and useful post cos i moved my blog from blogger to wordpress succcesfully without any problem…thks don…THUMBs UP!
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Twitter: wpbunk
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I will be moving my blog to WP this month.I hope everything will be ok. Your tutorial is very informational. Thanks for sharing.
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Twitter: dilbagkoundal
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I am afraid to lose blogger images. is there any option to import blogger to wordpress with images?
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You can’t lose your images since they’re stored in your Picassa web album.
Twitter: rexcorpcyber
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Since I am ready to move from blogger to wordpress and your post begins with editing with the wordpress permalinks, when I’m being hosted on a server where I have my wordpress installed, what will be the custom domain there before I do the migration. Will I need to remove custom domain from my blogger blog and use for the wordpress before I do all the following things u mentioned here?
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Twitter: rexcorpcyber
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also I will like to ask. Since I am still on blogger and I don’t have a good enough SEO, do you think I should work on my SEO while I’m still on blogger or I should migrate then fix SEO at wordpress
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You have to point the custom domain to your new web host name servers.
Twitter: augustusvibe
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I finally moved the blog, but i ran into issues while trying to import my blog, but I was able to work around it, and to others that might face such problem please read this to avoid getting “Invalid Token Error” when importing your blog. http://www.tipsonpoint.com/2013/01/how-to-fix-invalid-token-error-when-transferring-from-blogger-to-wordpress.html
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Informative Blog
Thanks for Sharing !!
Twitter: generalkorex
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i just movedd my blogger blog to wp bt the permalinks of a thing didnt work.
i searched for a post on google instead of redirecting me to the post ,it went to homepage.how can i do this? cos av done d fixlink.php.i run it,and saw done and later deletede it.
Twitter: generalkorex
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please help me.i just moved my blog frm blogger to wordpress.bt am having problem with my permalinks.all my links when i searched on google are not redirecting to the post.it just redirect to my homepage.how can i fix it?
There’s a problem with your wordpress installation as it seems to be installed in /blog directory when I checked.
Awesome! this is just what I have been looking for! Thank you!
I have a question:
My domain (www.lalyblue.com) is currently pointing to my Blogger blog (so my posts), but once I make the switch, it will be pointing to my WordPress static home page. My posts will be at http://www.lalyblue.com/blog. Does this change anything to the procedure? Or will the RSS feed still work correctly, meaning that my followers will get my blog updates in their feed?
Thank you so much for your help!
Laly
Installing your WordPress site to /blog directory will break the permalinks. I won’t advice that. You can still install WordPress to your root folder and use a static page as homepage too.
Thank you! I was worried that my followers would land on the homepage instead of the blog posts (newbie question from someone who didn’t know a thing about rss feeds until yesterday…) It’s all good now! Thanks again!
Hi again!
I have another question: I just uploaded my WordPress site (which I developped locally with MAMP) to my server, and have reverted my blogger blog to my blogspot URL instead of my custom domain, but now when I type my domain I get an error message (“404. That’s an error. The requested URL / was not found on this server. That’s all we know”). Did I do something wrong? Is there something I need to do for my new site to appear online? Or is there a transition period before it shows? And if so, can I go back to using my domain with blogger in the meantime, or does it have to remain available for the new site? This is all very confusing! Thank you if you can help!
You’re getting that error because you haven’t transferred DNS to your current webhost yet. Have you changed the nameservers already? All things being equal, propagation may take less than an hour though the regular time is 24-48 hours.
Thank you! I have found out what the problem was: the transfer of my domain from my former registrar to my new registrar/host had not been done yet! I had requested it over 2 weeks ago but some authorization email got lost in my mailbox. It should all be OK in a few hours now. Thanks for your help and for this great post!
Twitter: Tanjil Islam
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My Goodness ! what an important post ! Just loved it. I found it when I was looking to transfer my post from blogspot to WordPress without losing traffic. I am going to implement it. Thanks. But are sure that my links will redirect to the new link ? After transfer I have to delete the blog from blogspot right ?
The links will redirect perfectly. I would advice you de-index your blogspot blog instead of totally deleting it.
Hi want to know if it is possible and how to do the following
I will pass all the blog content from blogguer to wp
But I want to individualize each redirect as in:
On Blogger:
site.blogspot.com/2010/08/bad-nameee.html
And I want it to redirect to wordpress:
site.com/good-name.html
I’ve been trying to find out how to do this but have no clew so far
Can anyone help? Please?
It’s possible, I think. You may check out this article:
what happens when the permalinks on Blogger is a custom permalink instead of automatic. Will that also get configured automatically on wordpress using the codes provided.
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That can be a problem. That code only works for automatic blogger permalinks.
Can you explain step 2? I don’t know what a DNS entry, or a cpanel, or a hosting account is. Yes, you can laugh at me. =p
You have to purchase a hosting account first from web hosting providers like Arvixe or Hostgator to install WordPress. You also need to have a domain name and you must point your nameservers to your web hosting account.
Of course, I can help with the installation and you won’t have to worry about all the technicalities just for a little fee.
Twitter: kashyap_ksit
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Thanks a lot! I read a lot of articles on other websites… nowhere was it mentioned so clearly. You cleared all my queries! Thumbs up
Twitter: kashyap_ksit
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Hey! I’m in some trouble. Could use some help!
I’ve done everything you said. I’ve successfully migrated my blog from Blogger to WordPress. However, in Google search engine, my old blog results appear(I’ve added the meta tag and have disabled robots.txt).
Also, in Webmaster tools for my new WordPress blog, I’m getting a DNS error! It says “Google couldn’t access your site because of a DNS error” in Crawl Errors. Everything seems proper when i use “Fetch as Google”.
I’ve checked my DNS management as well. I’ve added the right NameServers. Everything seems well in my hosting account too.
Do you have any idea what I can do to get rid of this problem? I really don’t want to lose out on search engines!
PS:- I can send a couple of screenshots for more info!
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It takes a while before those ones get removed from Google search completely, might even take weeks.
Can you do a NS lookup to see if everything is actually alright? It could be because the DNS change has not propagated fully.
Also, you should fully transfer all DNS entries you your host by adding your previous CNAMES through the cPanal interface under Advanced DNS Editor.
Twitter: kashyap_ksit
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Yup! It worked
Just one last doubt… Did you have any problem with your site getting indexed? Its been nearly 2 days and my site still hasn’t been indexed! I know I shouldn’t be impatient….
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Hey Don, I have read this post at least 20 times and I am still having trouble with the 10th step concerning fixing my permalinks/broken links.
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Did you upload the file to your domain root already?
Yeah that’s the problem I’m having trouble with. I actually don’t know how to navigate to the domain root, I’ve pointed domain to bluehost and now I’m stuck on the permalinks.
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I found the root folder however when I uploaded the fixlinks.php, it didn’t say “done”. It just uploaded to the public_html, the permalinks are still broken though.
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You must visit your-site.com.fixlinks.php
replace your-site.com with your own URL.
Just upload it to the folder where you installed WordPress, probably public_html
Hey Don, I just sent you an email.
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Twitter: wpbunk
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Hello Don,
I migrated from blogger to wordpress using your post.Migration was smooth and all the posts and comments were imported.I was able to retain all facebook likes,tweets etc as well.But there are lots of 404 errors when I crawl in google webmaster tools.Whenever there is ? in the post,it takes to 404.e.g. for mobile version there is m=0 and m=1,it takes to 404.There are 251 error of this kind.I submitted my sitemap through google xml sitemap plugin and errors were reduced to 1 but now again it is showing 251 errors.How can I fix them?Please reply fast.As they can effect my blog in a bad way in upcoming panda update on march 2013.
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That’s because blogger uses m=0 and m=1 to render the mobile version which is not available on WP. Also there amy be 404 for label pages since WordPress does that differently.
It’s nothing to worry about so far your post pages are still intact.
Twitter: wpbunk
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I agree with you and I am not loosing any traffic because of these errors.But Google webmaster tools shows these errors.So,for Google they exist.This will effect my SEO in a very bad way.Please tell me how to fix them.
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Personally, I did nothing about them when I saw them, I just let them be. But I think there;s a section in GWT where you can specify URLs not to be crawled… you can specifically tell Googlebot not to index URLs with ?m=0 and m=0. I’ve done similar thing before with SMF.
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Twitter: lyrikcal_jae_o
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i use 19jawebhosting and i cant locate any one click installer in my c panel what should i do boss
You have to download WordPress from http://www.wordpress.org and install it.
Twitter: lyrikcal_jae_o
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sorry if i sound stupid how ll i install the wordpress on my c panel please break it down
Twitter: ugojoloms
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Hi Don!
I want to remove my blogspot from Google, should I paste the code in my blogger template or the new wordpress template? Thanks.
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That should go into the head section of your Blogger template.
Twitter: ugojoloms
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Thanks you very much bro, heading over to fix it now.
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Twitter: ugojoloms
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It is me again Don! Please help me with a how to on how to sort this out.
My old blogger posts that I moved to WordPress will not show up when I click their links from my social sites.
I thought pasting the code in my blogger template will solve that but it did not.
What should I do?
Please help!
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Twitter: JamiuOloyede
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don, am having problems with the three subtopics below:
Moving Your Blogger Feed Subscribers Over To WordPress
Retaining Facebook likes, tweets and other sharing counts
Removing Your Old blogspot Site From Google Index
how can i sort them out.
thanks.
I think all these are treated in the article. Just try going through it fully.
Twitter: JamiuOloyede
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concerning how to remove old blogspot site from google index, how will i add
in the header section.
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Just add it before </head> tag in your template.
Twitter: yashika01
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Hi,
I dont own a custom domain.I like to merge my blog into one blog.I imported the poss from other blog into one singe blog.301 also not possible it seems.
so i made my blogs not visible to search engines.is it ok?
i will get duplicate content problem or any issues.
please reply.,
thanks.
yashika
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So far you’re removing the other one from Google’s index, you shouldn’t get penalized for duplicate content. But I guess you can do 301 redirect on WP with some plugins
Forgive me Don, I’m trying to figure this all out. I have a blogger site and was told that wordpress is better. I have my own domain name already linked to the blogger site and am wondering the steps to take to transfer to wordpress. I downloaded wordpress from the .net site and now just have a folder on my desktop with PHP files – what the heck do I do now?
You must purchase a hosting account, point your nameservers to your host, and install WordPress before anything.
So you install the WordPress files to the domain?
You install WordPress on your hosting account with your domain name configured to work with it.
Hi,
I moved from blogspot to WordPress without any trouble.Thanks for the post.
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YOU are my HERO!!!!! Thank you, thank you thank you. Fixed all my 404′s. BOOOOOM!
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Awesome Post… Really its very usefull
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thanks, i want to move my site from blogspot to wp.
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you may try demo migration of up to 10 pages so you may see how the service will transfer your blog. the main benefit of this tool is, it saves a lot of time!