Move Your Blogger Blog to WordPress: Getting Content on a New Host

Move Your Blogger Blog to WordPress: Getting Content on a New Host


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If you've been with Blogger for a while, have your own domain name and are ready to move to something bigger and better, keep reading. This is the second part of a three-part series that will help you move your blog to WordPress.

Recap of the tutorial



In the first part of this tutorial, we discussed the strategy for transferring content from your Google Blogger-hosted blogs to WordPress using your own custom domain name. If you have not read the first part, it is highly recommended that you read that first, before reading this part, as it contains information you need to understand this article.



The overall strategy focuses on registering your own custom domain and then pointing the CNAME to Blogger. This will allow Blogger to 301 redirect the old blog post URLS (those with .blogspot.com URLs) to new URLs that include your preferred domain name.



After maturity of the 301 redirection (this means that Google is passing all link juices/page rank and has updated all URLs in the Google index), we will export all Blogger posts to your WordPress XAMPP local host at which the onsite work is to be done.



After completion of the onsite work at the WordPress XAMPP local host, we will then select a web host to which these files and the database are to be uploaded. After this, we will point the name servers of the domain to your new web host.



After installation of the default WordPress, empty all the database tables used by the default installation and then import the WordPress database containing all of your Blogger blog posts.



We also need to check the consistency of your URLs before and after the transfer in order to avoid 404 errors (read part one of this tutorial for some background).



In this article, we will discuss the best practices for moving Blogger to WordPress. The following techniques below are vital to ensure that moving content to your WordPress web host will not affect both website traffic and current rankings in Google. These include:



Exporting Blogger content to your computer WordPress XAMPP local host.



Preparing the WordPress local host files to be uploaded to FTP.



Preparing the MySQL WordPress local host database to be exported to your new web host.



Installation of WordPress on your new web host.



Importing the MySQL WordPress database and replacing the default installation database.



Correcting possible 404 errors due to some changes in the URL before and after the blog transfer. This is safely done using 301 redirection with Apache .htaccess file.



Completing the finishing touches of the transfer. This includes updating your Google Webmaster tools account and Google Analytics for that website.

If you are ready to proceed and have read part one in detail, keep reading this article.