I have top level domain for my blogger but now I want to switch to wordpress as wordpress is much better in everything from blogger. My blogger blog has some baclinks to main page and also has deep links so is it safe to migrate to wp without any significant effect on rankings. As every link address will be changed while switching to wp. Except main domain. I am quite confused with it as I don’t like dealing with this technical stuff, so please explain in simple language
I think you should continue with blogger if you are switch to WP then your content will be duplicate.. I don't think you should take risk on your good working blog.....
if you dont get much traffic you can take the heat I guess. on the 404 page you can suggest some related posts.
You can move your Blogger blog to WordPress if you can figure out how to add a meta refresh with a zero second delay to each of the old Blogger posts (which most engines treat like a 301 redirect). Or if you can figure out how to add a <link rel="canonical"> element to your Blogger pages, you can indicate that the canonical URL for each old Blogger page is the corresponding new WordPress page. This way you can leave your old Blogger blog in place, copy all of the posts over to WordPress, and make all future posts on your WordPress blog. The <link rel="canonical"> element will transfer credit for all inbound links to each of your old Blogger pages over to the corresonding new WordPress page. The problem with this approach is that it ONLY fixes the problem with Google since they are the ONLY search engine that has implemented support for the <link rel="canonical">.
Do not change.There will be a significant drop in your rankings atleast for some time. Will cast a , Bad effect on deep links if you do not take pains to permanent redirect those via url rewriting.
Apprantly not so according to this post I just found searching the matter myself.. In fact you can preserve the links exactly as they are when you transfer from blogger to wordpress and despite what people say about SEO this can be done safely without loosing any SEO. In fact WordPress offers more SEO benefits that Blogger does anyway. And there are better reasons for doing this. Blogger can delete your free hosted blog at any time. Not good for a site that's rising and earning. I think the way around it is to switch your blogger blog back to the domain.blogspot.com address. Then change the nameservers to your self hosted account where the wordpress installation is. Once you have hosting sorted you need to install WordPress into the public_html folder. Using Fantastico from the cpanel of your hosting account for easy install. You need to change the Permalinks section first. Blogger and WordPress convert post titles into URLs differently. Blogger leaves out stop words like “and†and “the.†You can fix this with a WordPress plugin called Redirection and other plugins can do this now too. Go into the in in WordPress and type this line /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html This is to match the post structure of your Blogger blog, to minimize the number of broken links and redirects. However if you have many posts with many different words or any symbols in them you will need to go through them all and check them manually. (There may be a plugin for this!?) This is me learning as I go as well and hoping to do this very thing myself because I want to preserve my site safely with my own security on my own hosted server. There are some other steps involved as well if you see that post link I gave you and I will update on this as and when I have managed to do it successfully. Would appreciate any input from other people who have managed to do this and any headsups you have? Thanks.
Just make sure you retain the same permalink structure and use a permanent redirect 301 plugin when you are done installing Wordpress..