blogger to wordpress migration in 3 simple steps

1. Export: blogger >>settings>>basic>>export data>> backup xml file downloaded .
2. Import: wordpress install>> tools>> blogger importer>> import xml >> posts added
3. Redirection in case of sub domain you can redirect with htaccess.  incase of blogspot you can’t because blogspot not allowed to redirect third party websites.

Once you moved to WordPress how to do you use same URL permalinks of blogger version.

Redirecting blogger now  getting difficulty. depending on your servers some plugin won’t works.

URL:  permalink finder

wp-maintain-blogger-permalinks-2.1 plugin

If you are blogger blog got deleted, and don’t have the backup.

then backup your data using google cache, archive.org will not work efficiently.

we can fix desktop version mobile redirects. but what about mobile version URLs

like ?m=1

we have to remove the “?” parameter / redirect using the .htaccess.

Blogger redirect plugin won’t work for if old blogger deleted.

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^m=1$

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^m=1$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1? [R=301,L]

Moving WordPress process following these steps.

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• 1. you can export blogger XML file.
  2. Import using WordPress importer and then process same as method 1
  1. Method 2 for importing posts from blogger to WordPress:
     
     if the above authorization doesn’t work due to auht2.0 of google.
• blogger WordPress Fixing permalinks:
  
  you can use pretty permalinks structure like post name or category/post name rather month/year.postname.html,
  you can redirect with this plugin permalink finder, or redirect plugin. without adding any code to template.php or without editing.htaccess.
  
• After importing your data, you check for permalinks which are old like blogger permalink structure
• year/month/post-name.html
• but here you need to focus on this wisely because in future you want to change your permalink structure in WordPress only post name or Post name/post_id or category/post name you may also interest in the best permalink structure for SEO in WordPress.

1. the major thing  is redirected blogger blog will delete due to blogger terms of service. because I faced this asked blogger they replied this is one of spam method redirecting another.
2.  Google shows your old blogger permalink structure I am facing this since 1 year. also index Google mobile format URL which year/month/post name.html?m=1. goes away later
3. You may lose your traffic in my case when I moved blogger to WordPress to Google indexing crawling lazily in blogger when posted an article that website it indexed in seconds. but now in WordPress indexing time take 1 day or more sometimes XML sitemap plugin in WordPress not update when you update content. you may also check debug function in that plugin.
4. DUplicated content if redirection breaks if you are reused your old blogger blog content on blog spot which is exported blogger data. if you import this to another blogger blog why you do this because totally permalink structure changed. old content is there is without any purpose why don’t I park this blogger. if the you do this your new WordPress blog ignores in Google index and blogger platform blog gets rank until you changed the content of on WordPress site if you totally changed your content on your WordPress blog.  blogger parked domain also loose traffic. this also experienced.
5. if you are a Newbie you don’t know technical experience I don’t recommend WordPress because there are lots of plugin errors, especially with your hosting provider. some of the plugins use more memory also check limits beyond shared hosting.
6. in my case in shared server if I get more than 500 users I get 508 service resource limit reached they block your database or directory hostgator uses process limit if you cross the limit you will get 500 internal server error. if this happens frequently they will suspend your account not pay any money you may refer Hostgator terms of service.
7. if you moved to WordPress there is no way come back to blogger. But you can do manually.

why to move WordPress from blogger ?

1. better SEO if you think of this. Google recently not crawling meta tags like keyword, announced by Google Matt Cutts. but  the website description clearly index in Google snippet in results. Google algorithm very complexity and also its depends on more than 200 factors. blogger blogs are more active in Google results than WordPress  because it’s owned by Google.
2. more customization especially themes  lots  of people  attract here really this feature to WordPress bunch of WordPress themes available better than blogger.