The Blogger to Wordpress series consists of three posts.
1. Keeping it simple – This deals with what to expect, initial problem encounters, choosing a proper host and transferring posts.
2. Feeds, Re-directs and Permalinks – this takes care of initial things which you’ll probably have to do once your new Wordpress avvount is set up like re-directing feeds, changing your Permalink structure and making sure you don’t lose your Blogger URL’s which will probably be the only URL’s indexed in Google at the time.
3. Plug-ins to get you started – This gives you a few Plug-ins to get you started with your new Wordpress account.
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I’ve found wordpress very simple and easy to manage. That being said, blogger still have more options for ads which you dont get with WP.
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that is true if you are referring to the shared wordpress(wordpress.com), downloading the wordpress software and hosting it on your own website provides just as much functionality as blogger does. Apart from that in terms of plugins and themes, wordpress (again wordpress.org) would still be the better blogging platform.
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Luq, Do you know of a firm that can transfer a wordpress.com to a .com including hosting etc. I have a wp.com acct but would like to have more control like ads .Thanks for the explanation.
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The best way to go is do it yourself, select a good host, i use godaddy, get a relevant hosting package (there are godaddy coupons everywhere if you wanta discount), setup wordpress on your hosting account (if you don’t know how to do this, godaddy has a 1-click installation for this). Then backup your wordpress.com posts and restore it on your new hosted wordpress and that’s about it.
PS – godaddy has quite a bit of bad press, but IMO i’ve used godaddy for over a year without any short comings so its your call.
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Please one last question. My worpress.com blog has a PR4 will that still be tranfered when I host with an independeny hosting company?
Thanks, it’s been so kind of you for the advice. Mon
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to pass on the page rank from your wordpress.com blog you’ll need to setup a 301(permanent) redirect from your wordpress.com blog and unfortunately wordpress.com does not support that if you are looking to switch to the wordpress.org hosted version, you’ll have to rebuild your page rank.
Reducing the number of external links as much as possible in your wordpress.com blog and linking to your new domain name only would give you a good page rank in the next update for the new domain as a good chunk from the pr4 would be passed on as that’s how page rank is calculated, divided based on the number of external links on that website.
and no problem with the questions, feel free to ask anything else.
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You’ve been an absolute star.I guess I’ll have to learn more about 301’s.Thanks
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Anytime, if you have anymore questions, just drop me a comment or send me an email.
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That’s nice to see a webmaster with such advice and help.
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Good job, Thank a lot. There are a lot of what i am looking for.
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Just info for you, google just update google PR, some of my web page drop to 0 or N/A, and other is stable. Is this just google dance? Hmm.. Its time for you to check your Google PR.
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