Questions re: moving blog from Blogger to Wordpress

I have a blog which is hosted by blogger.com but is on a custom domain (that means it ends in .com and not .blogspot.com). I am now thinking of moving to a paid hosting setup where, as far as I know, the only option I have is to use Wordpress (because we can't upload blogger.com software on an independently hosted custom domain, right?).

My questions are:
1. Can I export my blog from blogger.com and import it into the Wordpress format without any problem?

2. Will this change the permalinks (the blogpost URLs)? Is there any way to keep the permalinks unchanged? I have done some paid posts on that blog and need the blogpost URLs to stay the same. Is that possible?

 

Same question i just asked yesterday, but found the answer here:

http://imthekiller.blogspot.com/2010/01/move-your-blog-from-blogspot-to.html

 

Use Meta Tags to redirect fromyour old Blog put this in the page head and you can also leave a message that your visitors will be redirected this is the lazyway<meta content='6;url=http://yournew Blog.com/' http-equiv='refresh'/><meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">
<title><$BlogPageTitle$></title>

 

Once i did this, but blogger marked my blog as spam, so i revert my template to classic template.

 

NoIndex NoFollow NoProblem

 

If noindex, nofollow then how would search engine no; you have moved

 

That is the Point you do not want Search engines to Index or Follow your Old Blog because you will be done for Duplicate Content. Your new Imported Blog will Index Instead this will also show you how to Redirect Individual Posts http://www.webupd8.org/2009/06/how-to-redirect-your-blogger-blog-to.html

 

Thanks all done, waiting for its output