Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal wrote a very eye opening post this yesterday morning that outlined a few of the Blogger.com Terms of Services. If you have a chance to read this post, and you happen to also be a Blogger.com or Blogspot blogger, it may send chills down your spine.
How would you like to wake up one morning to discover that Google has shut your blog down? I am not saying it will happen, but I am saying that according to the Blogger Terms of Services, they have all the right to do so and most importantly you agreed to this when you signed up.
In this article I am going to show you how you can pack your bags and make the move from Blogger.com to self-hosted WordPress. You will be provided with some very good guides and tutorials that I have found on the Internet that will help you make this move successfully if you choose to do so.
While searching I came across this Complete List of Blogger Tutorials that you might be interested in reading. This very detailed tutorial was written by a publisher named Amanda on April 19th, 2008 from bloggerbuster.com.
Have you considered starting your own web site? My web site is a WordPress blog and I use HostGator.com web hosting. You can start your own web site just like mine for as little as $7.95 / month using their Baby Plan. That is the web hosting plan I have and it is perfect for beginners and even experts because it comes with tons of free software to get you started. When you sign up, be sure to use the coupon code: wordpress and try them for one month only a penny!
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Date/Time: 6-14-2008 01:07:56 Comment #15550
Nice list there Garry but you forgot this one: Migrating-Redirecting Blogger to Wordpress: The Complete Guide!
Hope it helps.
Date/Time: 6-15-2008 02:21:59 Comment #15570
I think that many blogspot bloggers, when changing to wordpress, bring their blogspot approach with them - like adding in a ton of plug ins and so forth. I did that, and I am just now learning what it means to run your own site. There is a lot to learn and the amount you can learn is endless. Most people fail to do a 301 redirect when moving and lose all their ranking. I discovered that you have to install a classic template to do a 301 unless you know how to write one in using XML, something most people wouldn’t be able to do.
Date/Time: 6-15-2008 09:35:56 Comment #15576
Garry,
The 1st of June I moved from wordpress.com (free, no java/flash, limited commercialization, no adsense) to wordpress.org. I wanted to move my blog into more paid resource and product recommendations and I didn’t like the restrictions of the free version of wordpress. However, the software is great. I love it.
There are some new things to learn and I am learning them. I don’t have it all down yet, but I am quickly getting there. I wish I had started self-hosted, but after blogging only 30 days I didn’t have a huge audience yet to migrate and the interconnectivity of the wordpress blog community did give me fast visibility. (I am happy to report they did follow me over.)
This is the way to go. Thanks for all the great resources.
Together, we are stronger.
Vicki Flaugher, the original SmartWoman
Find out the top 3 things internet marketers should stop doing to market to women:
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Date/Time: 8-22-2008 08:41:01 Comment #19106
thanks a lot for this great tip! i have finally moved my blogger account into wordpress platform including SEO points hopefully, it worked perfectly from my vertito.blogspot.com blogger account
nice ! keep it up!