This slideshow covers important steps need to migrate from Blogger.com to self-hosted Wordpress without affecting your permalinks, search engine ranking, traffic, etc.

1. By-
RahulBansal
Founder& Director
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2.  From Wordpress.org, you can download
wordpress and install it on your server.
 You normally pay for server space.
 You normally buy a domain name in this case.
 Wordpress.com is like Blogger.com.
 You can blog without paying any bucks.
 You don’t have control that Wordpress.org can
offer you normally.

3.  Better Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
 You don’t have to wait for Google to add
some X feature to blogger
 You are not restricted by Bloggers’ template
tags which limit the way you can enhance
your blogs’ user interface.
 …

4.  First and most important step is -
 “BUY A CUSTOM DOMAIN NAME
FOR YOUR BLOG”
 Because…
 It gives unique identity to your blog
 It also makes your blog accessible across wider
geographic reason

5.  Steps…
 Log into Blogger’s dashboard.
 Find your blog’spublishing settings.
 Go to advance settings or buy a domain name
from their itself.
 Need Help?
 http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=5
5373

7.  You can do this on your PC locally
 http://www.google.com/search?q=install+wordpress+locally
 Some articles suggest using wordpress.com
for this!

8.  Go to “Settings >>Permalinks”

9.  Go to “Tools >> Import”

11.  We initially assumed that you are using
custom domain name.
 One domain can point to one blog. Currently
its pointing to Blogger.com blog.
 You need to make it point to your webhost
where you want to install and run your
Wordpress blog.

12.  WordPress post link:
 http://localhost/2009/01/national-conference-on-
advanced-computer-systems-ncacs-09-hindustan-college-
of-engineering.html
 Blogger.com post link for same post:
 http://www.example.com/2009/01/national-conference-
on-advanced.html
 Fixed permalink:
 http://localhost/2009/01/national-conference-on-
advanced.html

13. <?php
require_once('wp-load.php');
$res = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_id, meta_value FROM $wpdb-
>postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'blogger_permalink'");
$wpdb->print_error();
foreach ($res as $row) {
$slug = explode("/", $row->meta_value);
$slug = explode(".", $slug[3]);
$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb-
>posts SET post_name ='" . $slug[0] . "' WHERE ID = $row->post_id");
$wpdb->print_error();
}
echo "DONE";
?>

14.  Go to “Tools >> Export”.

15.  Configure custom domain on your
webhosting account.
 Upload & Install WordPress. Most webhost
provide one-click interface for this.
 Change permalink structure like we did in
step 2. (Ref: Slide #8)

16.  Go to “Tools >> Import” (again) but select
Wordpress this time.
 Upload XML file we saved in step 6 and just
follow next few steps. (Ref: Slide #14)

17.  Testing new wordpress’ permalinks & SEO
 What to do with Blogger.com blog now?
 Don’t Delete it!
 Moving feed subscribers
 Installing Blogger to Wordpress permalink
redirection plugin -
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogger-
to-wordpress-redirection/

18.  Your images in old posts will remain on your
Blogger account.
 There is no tool which can “generate”
Wordpress theme from a Bloggers template.

19.  Ask a friend!
 Need free support?
 Use our forum -
http://www.devilsworkshop.org/forum/
 Ready to spend some bucks! ;-)
 Ask rtCamp - http://rtcamp.com/

20.  Complete guide with an example migration
 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/moving-from-
blogger-to-wordpress-maintaining-permalinks-
traffic-seo/
 Plugin to maintain permalinks from your
xyz.blogspot.com to new wordpress blog
 http://www.devilsworkshop.org/blogger-to-
wordpress-traffic-permalinks-redirection-plugin/

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