How to Shift From WordPress to Blogger Without Losing Anything

WordPress is no doubt an excellent blogging platform, but sometimes you want to move to Blogger for many reasons but you don't thinking that you would lose traffic, backlinks, pagerank and other things. This post shows you the whole procedure of successful migration from WordPress to Blogger without losing anything.

First things first, you have to save your posts, pages and comments from WordPress to Blogger.

Exporting Content from WordPress

To move the posts, pages and comments, here are the steps:

1. Go to your WordPress dashboard and then go to Tools >> Export.
2. Select the "All content" option. Or if you want to export just the posts or pages, select accordingly.
   
   
3. Click on "Download Export File".

A WordPress export xml file will be downloaded, but its not finished. This file can be read by WordPress but not by Blogger, therefore, you have to convert.

Converting WordPress Export File to Blogger Format

To convert your WordPress export file into blogger format, use the WordPress to Blogger conversion utility app. Upload yout exported file to this app and it will decode and encode it to Blogger format for you. Download the converted file.

Importing Content To Blogger

To import your converted file to WordPress, you can follow these steps:

1. Go to your Dashboard and then go to Settings << Other.
2. Under the "Blog Tools" head, click on "Import Blog".
3. In the following screen, select your file and enter the captcha.
4. If you want your posts to be published automatically, check the box.
5. Click on "Import Blog".

Now there are two cases, if you want to keep your old domain name, or not. If you do,

Pointing a custom Domain to Blogger Blog

 

If you want to keep your old domain name that you used for your WordPress blog,

1. Go to the control panel of your domain name provider.
2. In the DNS Management, go to DNS Records.
3. Go to CNAME records and add two new records as following.

Name/Label/Host: www
Points to/Destination/Target: ghs.google.com

Name/Label/Host: 5SKCDZVQOEVP
Points to/Destination/Target: gv-CZM4RDVZHBENGKIJMGETQOUGNYF3GSN5JJ3LTB6QRXFMUW2SIJMQ.domainverify.googlehosted.com.

Now continue the following steps.

1. In the same DNS Management section, go to A records.
2. Add four new A records with value "yourdomain.xyz" where yourdomain is the domain you are linking and .xyz is the extension of your domain. In the IP addresses section, enter these,
   216.239.32.21
   216.239.34.21
   216.239.36.21
   216.239.38.21

When you are done with all this, log out of your control and wait for up to 24 hours for the DNS to migrate.
Now you have to tell blogger that you have updated the records. For that,

1. Go to your blogger dashboard.
2. Go to Settings >> Basic. In the Publishing tab, go to Advanced settings.
3. Enter your full domain and click on save.

Your domain must now be pointing to your new blogger blog.
If you want to change your domain, you must do the following.

Telling Webmaster Tools About New Domain

When you change your domain, you should tell webmaster tools about your new domain. For that,

1. Login to your Google Webmaster Tools.
2. Go to your website listing.
3. Go to Configuration >> Change of Address.
4. Follow the steps.

Redirecting Traffic to New Permalinks 

Now the next thing you need to do is to redirect your traffic to blogger permalinks. For that,

1. Go to your blogger dashboard.
2. Go to Settings >> Search Preferences.
3. Under "Errors and Redirection", go to "Custom Redirects".
4. Add as many redirects as you want.

Your old permalinks will now redirect to your new permalinks.

Submitting Sitemap

The last thing you might want to do is to submit your sitemap of your new Blogger blog. In WordPress there were many plugins which created an xml sitemap for you, but in blogger there aren't any.
Submitting sitemap is simple. Just submit the atom feed URL in any webmaster tools. The default feed url in blogger is

http://www.yourdomain.xyz/feeds/posts/default

To submit this sitemap on Google,

1. Go to Google Webmaster Tools.
2. Go to your site listing.
3. Go to Optimization >> Sitemaps.
4. Click on Add/Test Sitemap.
5. Enter the above URL and click add.

This is it. You have now successfully moved your WordPress blog to Blogger. Let is know if there's any other help you need. Thanks for reading.