[imei number] How to Migrate Your Blog from Blogger to Wordpress Without Losing Your Traffic

Truly, Wordpress is more suitable for website owners than Blogger. Why? It's because on Wordpress, you can customize your website the way you like without limit (some feature of Wordpress may cost you with a couple of bucks however). That is why many bloggers prefer Wordpress and, we know that you would love to switch to Wordpress right now...

If you are using Blogger then you want to switch to Wordpress, the biggest problem that you'll be facing is that you might start from scratch. Why? Here's why:

Some of your articles on the old blogspot blog could be ranking very high in search engines for certain keywords but once you move these articles to a new WordPress blog, you will lose the organic search traffic since the permalinks (or URLs) of your blog posts will change.

People come to your blog through search engines, browser bookmarks and referrals from other web sites that have linked to your blog pages. If you migrate to WordPress, Blogger will not automatically redirect these visitors to your new website.

When you switch from Blogger to WordPress, existing readers who are subscribed to your Blogger RSS Feed may be lost forever if they don’t manually subscribe to your new WordPress feed address.

But did you know that there's a way to avoid these problems?

Do you want to move your blog from Blogger to Wordpress smoothly, and without having to start on scratch? If you do, then follow the simple steps below:

1. Register a new web domain, buy web hosting and install WordPress on your new domain.

2. Open your WordPress Admin Dashboard and under Tools -> Import, select the Blogger option. Authorize WordPress to access your Blogger Account, select your blogspot.com blog and within minutes, all your Blogger blog posts and comments will be available on the new WordPress site.

3 Open the WordPress themes editor under Appearance -> Editor and open the functions.php file for editing. Most WordPress themes include a functions.php file or you can upload it manually into your WordPress themes folder through cPanel or FTP. Copy-paste the following snippet of code inside your functions.php file (at the beginning of the file) and click the “Update File” button to save your changes

<?php
function labnol_blogger_query_vars_filter( $vars ) {
$vars[] = "blogger";
return $vars;
}
add_filter('query_vars', 'labnol_blogger_query_vars_filter');
function labnol_blogger_template_redirect() {
global $wp_query;
$blogger = $wp_query->query_vars['blogger'];
if ( isset ( $blogger ) ) {
wp_redirect( labnol_get_wordpress_url ( $blogger ) , 301 );
exit;
}
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'labnol_blogger_template_redirect' );
function labnol_get_wordpress_url($blogger) {
if ( preg_match('@^(?:https?://)?([^/]+)(.*)@i', $blogger, $url_parts) ) {
$query = new WP_Query (
array ( "meta_key" => "blogger_permalink", "meta_value" => $url_parts[2] ) );
if ($query->have_posts()) {
$query->the_post();
$url = get_permalink();
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}
return $url ? $url : home_url();
}
?>

4. Open your Blogger Dashboard and choose Templates. Scroll down the templates page and choose the “Revert to Classic Templates” option to switch from the XML-based Blogger templates to the classic Tag based templates.

5. Copy-paste the following snippet into your Blogger template editor but before you do that, replace all occurrences of labnol.org with your new WordPress site URL. For instance, if your WordPress site is located at example.com, replace / with example.com and paste the modified snippet in the Blogger template editor. Save the changes.

<html>
<head>
<title><$BlogPageTitle$></title>
<script>
<MainOrArchivePage>
window.location.href="http://labnol.org/"
</MainOrArchivePage>
<Blogger><ItemPage>
window.location.href="/?blogger=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"
</ItemPage></Blogger>
</script>
<MainPage>
<link href="/" />
</MainPage>
<Blogger>
<ItemPage>
<link href="/?blogger=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>" />
</ItemPage>
</Blogger>
</head>
<body>
<MainOrArchivePage>
<h1><a href="/"><$BlogTitle$></a></h1>
</MainOrArchivePage>
<Blogger>
<ItemPage>
<h1><a href="/?blogger=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogItemTitle$></a></h1>
<$BlogItemBody$>
</ItemPage>
</Blogger>
</body>
</html>

You are almost done. Open any page on your old Blogger blog and it should redirect you to the corresponding WordPress page. We are using a permanent 301 redirect on the WordPress side and therefore all the Google Juice and PageRank should pass to your new WordPress pages.

The above method works for regular blogspot.com URLs and also country-specific Blogger domains like blogspot.co.uk, blogspot.com.au or blogspot.com.

The Blogger Import tool moves only posts and comments from Blogger to WordPress but not images. And that should be fine because the image URLs in your imported WordPress posts are still pointing to blogspot.com (where the images were originally hosted) and therefore nothing would break.

Switch RSS Feed from Blogger to WordPress

When you move from Blogger to WordPress, the URL of your RSS feed will change as well. Go to Blogger -> Settings -> Other and choose Post Feed Redirect URL under Site Feed. Here you can type the web address of your new WordPress RSS feed here and the existing RSS subscriber will automatically move to your new feed.

If you are using FeedBurner, just replace the source from Blogger RSS feed to your new WordPress feed.

Now, you should familiarize yourself to Wordpress from now on. Learn the basics of Wordpress and that's it. Happy Blogging!

Credits: guide made by Amit Agarwal (http://labnol.org/internet/switch-from-blogger-to-wordpress/9707/)