Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr
Ensuring a bland clearing from Blogger to WordPress
Before the migration
1. Accepting the area name.
I accept you’ve bought a abundant area name.
Make abiding that,
a. If you accept a armpit that needs advance ( aloft the accustomed amoebic chase )
- Get a “brandable” area name with acceptable anamnesis value.
b. If you accept a armpit that has a accustomed affairs through amoebic chase through your content,
- Then get a area name that matches with your niche.
Ensuring a bland migration.
2. Don’t annul the old blog, body the new one first.
I accept that you already accept some absorption with the cartage on the blogger account. Now the best important footfall to booty afore affective to the WP annual is to accomplish abiding that you don’t lose your traffic.
For this, afore deleting your blogger.com account, set up your WordPress blog on the new domain, and acceptation all the blogger column application the acceptation function. Acquisition added admonition about importing here.
3. Get the new blog indexed on Google.
Now, accomplish abiding that you get the new blog indexed through a accurate alien link. During this time, I’d admonition that you block all the google indexing to the close pages/articles either application noindex tags or countersign attention those pages. And alone let the capital area name be indexed. The acumen is that if you let the agreeable get indexed now, it may aftereffect in alike content.
4. Issue a 301 alter on the old domain.
Once the new blog gets indexed on Google, install a 301 alter on all the pages/main area of your old blogger.com account. This will accomplish abiding that all the old posts will be “deleted” from Google and replaced with the new blog. I’d additionally admonition that you actualize URL structures on the new area to bout the old one and accordingly accomplish redirecting easier and beneath complicated. Additionally accomplish abiding that you’ve aerial the “noindexed” tags and “unblocked” all the close pages/articles from the new domain. 5. Watch the cartage anxiously for a few days, see for fluctuations.
For every migration, things booty their own time, although if we accept done things right, we should be able to apprehend a quick change over. So watch the cartage to the new blog anxiously and see if you’re accepting the aforementioned cartage as abundant as the old blog. If not, don’t worry, there ability be some acting glitches so adhere on, you charge to anguish alone if things don’t get appropriate in a anniversary or so.
6. If the cartage is okay, bead the old blog.
If you’re accepting bisected as cartage as the old blog, things are fine. So its safe to bead the old blog. But wait, adhere on for some added canicule until you get the cartage steady.
7. Check the SERPS.
If the SERPs still appearance the old blog URL, amuse acquaintance Google Webmasters and appeal a chiral deletion. But if you’ve done things right, it should already accept replaced by the new one.
That appealing abundant summarizes it, but accomplish abiding you don’t skip any footfall in amid or things can spiral up. One grave aberration I’ve begin abounding bodies repeating is that they annul the old blog alike afore the new one is indexed on Google. They acceptation the capacity on to the new blog and aloof annul the old blog cerebration that things will get automatically anchored from there. Actually in all chances, there may not be spiral ups, but you ability as able-bodied see a above dip in cartage so abundant as to aught while the new armpit is actuality indexed. So, do it apathetic and steady, things will be alright.
