Blogger to Wordpress conversion

[fctoma]

I have a client with a blogger site that has been doing great in the rankings but now they've bought a domain and we've put wordpress on it, and then imported the 30 or so posts from the old blogger account.

My question is what has worked best for you when converting a blogger site over to your own domain with wordpress? Should we remove all the posts from the blogger account since we have imported all into the wordpress site? There's really no way to redirect a blogger site unfortunately.

Any tips and advice on this mucho appreciated!!! What has worked for you? What hasn't worked for you?

Enjoy the weekend.

[kgun]

Originally Posted by fctoma

There's really no way to redirect a blogger site unfortunately.

Are you 100 % sure?

Originally Posted by fctoma

Should we remove all the posts from the blogger account since we have imported all into the wordpress site?

I think so, if my cite above is correct.


There is another solution:

1. Keep the old blog intact (and link to it on from the new site. Cross link if that is natural / semantic).
2. Delete the posts on the old blog and write new posts on it.

[fctoma]

Thank you Kgun!

No, not 100% sure if there is a redirect option withing the blogger interface. Does anyone else know if you can redirect a blogger site???

Cross linking, good idea as I've done this with my other sites but left the old ones intact...

[kgun]

May be it is possible.

Here The blog of MultiFinanceIT: Based on financial and IT links collected since 1995. is the original URL. I don't know the exact name of what I am doing (have to log in to my host account and look it up).

Is it dns forwarding or / ?? of blognorway dot com to the above URL? I think that is a possible solution.

Here http://blognorway.com/ is the forwarded (registered domain name with DNS possibilities) URL to my Blog.

It is not cloacking as far as I know.

Then you have to register a domain name for the blog. But you wan't to write content on a WordPress blog and use WordPress functionality.

That may exclude the above solution.

[fctoma]

Thanks again Kgun. I visited both URLs mentioned and it looks like they are exactly the same page, but on two different URLs.

This is what I have going now... the old domain.blogspot.com having the same pages as the new site domain.com that we've moved everything two.

But, as you know, since the new domain is newer, there is not links pointing to it and doesn't come up in the index yet. But the old blogspot addy comes up in all the searches.

Just don't know what is best to do. Delete the old posts on blogspot (and loose all the rankings for those individual pages?) Or, just keep them both and have two pages on separate domains with the same content.

Any ideas welcome.

[kgun]

Originally Posted by fctoma

Thanks again Kgun. I visited both URLs mentioned and it looks like they are exactly the same page, but on two different URLs.

But the content is only written on the original URL's (see above) site.

Originally Posted by fctoma

Just don't know what is best to do. Delete the old posts on blogspot (and loose all the rankings for those individual pages?) Or, just keep them both and have two pages on separate domains with the same content.

My bolding. I would be careful with a copy of the content. DNS masking or whatever it is called is not regarded as a copy as far as I know. You can have n redirects without being penalized again, as far as I know. But having a copy of the content. I would not recommend that.