Steps On Migrating From Blogger To WordPress And Keep Your Traffic And SEO Intact

Steps On Migrating From Blogger To WordPress And Keep Your Traffic And SEO Intact 

Shifting a blog site from "Blogger to WordPress" is easy however the goal is to "maintain the SEO" as well as the "traffic" of one's blog right after migration.

WordPress is much more impressive and easy to manage than Blogger so a lot of bloggers opt to move their blogs and forums from Blogger to WordPress after they created it on a cost-free web host offered by Blogger.

It is in some way a challenging undertaking to keep your "SEO and traffic" intact when moving your blog to WordPress. In this post, I will be sharing some tips on how to do just that.

In case you are not having a custom domain name on your Blogger, then the first thing you need to do is to create your personal domain for your WordPress site.

It should take approximately 2  to 3 days for all your listed posts to be transferred  from your .blogspot URL to your custom domain URL. As soon as your blogspot URLs vanish from the search engine results, begin the subsequent steps to transfer your Blogger site to WordPress.

Though Blogger sets an unchangeable 301 redirect afterwards but a Customized domain gives a much better user experience.

If you use your personal domain, then observe the following simple guidelines that won't only assist you in moving your blog site from Blogger to WordPress, but will even educate you on how to keep your SEO and traffic.

1. Buy your own hosting

To start with look for a good host and "buy a hosting" based on your needs and budget. Evaluate if your host has a nice track record on the market.

Usually "hosting companies" provide you with fake stats and miss the expectations of thei customers later on. Your blog site might be vulnerable to more down time on a poor hosting which can harm it in some measure.

So choose a "good web hosting plan" preferably a "Linux hosting" since "WordPress" has some known issues with Windows hosting.

2. Redirect Your Domain name to your new host

After you buy a new hosting for your blog site, redirect your domain name to your new host. To get it done, head to the domain user interface to make the essential adjustments in accordance with the information supplied by your host.

It may need a little while from a couple of minutes to 2 days until the adjustments and the re-direction to your new domain are worked out. Continue to check your domain status if it is already redirected.  Once your domain is rerouted see your web host user interface and set up WordPress on the root directory. After the installation of the WordPress.

Do The Following Steps:

1. Log-in to your WordPress blog site, and remove the default post that is produced through the installation. Then click Tools and find Import.
2. Within the next frame, select Blogger then set up the import plug-in when prompted, and after that select to perform the importing of files.
3. Google is going to ask you to allow it access after you supply your sign in credentials. It is strongly recommended to remain signed-in in your Blogger on the very same browser before you begin the import procedure. Enable the access there. At this point you will notice a list of all your Blogger posts and blogs. Simply click the Import button and then wait until the completion of the import process. After that select set authors.
4. After setting the authors for your posts, you must save the changes. You've now imported your Blogger posts successfully to your new WordPress blog.
5. Next modify the permalink design so it will be a lot like your Blogger permalinks as WordPress employ a different permalink framework automatically. This step is crucial to keep SEO and traffic of your Blogger blog.
6. Now click on save to save the changes.

You are now done! You've moved your "blog from Blogger to WordPress" and "keep your traffic and SEO intact".

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