La meilleure manière de se déplacer de Blogger bêta à WordPress

Signalé le 24 juin 2007 chez 8:25 P.M.

Ce guide est pour ces gens qui ont finalement décidé qu'ils veulent faire le saut à partir de la plateforme de Blogger à plus de professionnel et de plateforme flexible de WordPress. Dans Blogger contre WordPress luttez, il y a manière trop de raisons de se déplacer à WordPress pour moi à la liste ici, mais vous pouvez lire un couple de bons poteaux de quelques autres bloggers heureux de WordPress ici :

1. http://jayajha.wordpress.com/2005/09/27/bloggercom-vs-wordpresscom/ - Donne une bonne comparaison des deux plateformes blogging avec des négatifs et positifs de chacun.

2. http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/?p=71 - Tout à fait le blogger heureux de WordPress !

3. http://www.blogtrepreneur.com/2006/03/13/battle-of-the-blogs-blogger-vs-wordpress/ - Un autre point par comparaison de point où WordPress gagne !

De ma propre expérience personnelle, je dois dire que la meilleure chose que j'aime au sujet de WordPress est le fait qu'elle permettent à des lotisseurs de créer les connexions qui augmentent la plateforme de manière significative. En fait, s'il n'étaient pas pour les connexions, je n'aurais pas commuté à WordPress. Blogger bêta a actuellement seulement environ 10 à 12 widgets que vous pouvez ajouter à votre blog ; cependant, avec WordPress il y a des centaines de connexions.

En utilisant les connexions, vous pouvez faciliter votre vie blogging million de fois. Par exemple, Google met beaucoup de poids sur la structure interne de lien de votre emplacement, ainsi il est essentiel de faire des choses comme le lien à d'autres poteaux relatifs au fond de chaque poteau. Dans Blogger, vous devez faire ceci manuellement : trouvez les poteaux relatifs, créez les liens, et allez de nouveau au poteau mettre les liens po. D'une part, WordPress a un plugin appelé Poteaux relatifs possibilités à texte intégral de la recherche de quel MySQL d'utilisations pour trouver les poteaux presque parfaitement relatifs automatiquement ! J'avais l'habitude de passer presque des 5 à 10 minutes supplémentaires sur chaque poteau ajoutant manuellement des liens, qui emporte de votre vrai but de blogging. Sur celui, étant un humain, j'ai manqué beaucoup d'entrées qui les trouvailles plugin !

Quoi qu'il en soit, obtenant au point de ce poteau, quelle est la meilleure manière de commuter plus de de Blogger à WordPress ? C'est réellement une question assez dure avec un couple de différents chemins. Vous pourriez avoir lu ailleurs que vous pouvez simplement importer votre blog entier de Blogger dans WordPress et dans quelques minutes commencez sur votre bon chemin gai ! Et c'est réellement vrai, mais si vous ne faites cela et rien autrement, votre blog perdra tout le lui est le trafic, extrémité vers le haut dans l'index supplémentaire de Google, et mourra une mort malheureuse.

Est-ce qu'ainsi pourquoi c'est ? Disons vous avez écrit environ 500 poteaux dans Blogger et maintenant vous décidez que vous voulez s'orienter vers WordPress. That means it’s been around for a while and your site has probably already been indexed by Google. So all of your pages are in their main index. When you import all your posts into WordPress, you now have your original blog and your new blog, both with the same content. Google will crawl your new site and looks at it’s current cache to see if there is something very similar already in it’s cache. It will of course find the exact same content and will put your entire new site into it’s supplemental index because of the duplicate content. The supplemental index can be debated whether it is bad for your site or not, but it’s definitely not in the main index and that’s where you want your site to be. You can see which pages in your site are in the supplemental index by typing “site:www.mysite.com” into Google search. If you see “Supplemental Result” in green next to the URL of the site, that page is in the supplemental index.

So the obvious answer is to simply delete the blog right after importing the posts into WordPress right? WRONG! If you delete the Blogger blog, the Google bot will crawl your site and get a 404 error for that page and it will simply KEEP what it has in it’s cache. It does not believe in deleting content from it’s index. So even if you delete the blog completely, you’ll still get tagged with the duplicate content penalty since your site will remain in Google’s cache.

There are two ways around this: 1) Redirect your blog and every post automatically to it’s corresponding location in the new blog or 2) Get your original site out of the Google index completely and then allow Google to index your new site. There are of course advantages and disadvantages to both. Hands down, the best solution is to redirect your blog to the new one. The reason for this is that your Google juice (the PageRank you had developed on the main page of your old site and the inner pages) will get transferred over to the new site.

However, Blogger does not support this and there is some code I managed to find written by someone that tries to do this for you, but unfortunately it does not work perfectly. And from what I have read, it is quite essential to have each page redirect to the appropriate page in the new site. Simply redirecting everything to the main page on your new site will get you into the same trouble as before.

If your site has a PR of 5, 6 or higher, you may want to simply stay with Blogger. It might not be worth the lost traffic and lost AdSense reveune to switch. But if you’re like me, just starting out with only a couple of hundred posts and a PR of 4 or lower, then the fantasies of WordPress might just be worth it! If you simply must move from Blogger and you don’t want to lose your PR, then check out these links and see if you can use some tech savvy skills to get the redirect code to work perfectly!

http://www.techcounter.com/?p=47&cp=2#comments

http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress

Ok, now on the the second method! Note that the second method does not take into account retaining your PageRank! Unfortunately, it will be lost in the process. But from what I’ve read and heard from other bloggers who have made the move, your PageRank and traffic will come back quickly once your site is indexed. It might take a couple of months, but it will eventually come back. That kind of patience might be ok for some, but not for others, so choose your method carefully or don’t move at all!

The second method basically is to edit the template of your Blogger blog so that for each and every one of your posts only the skeleton of the post is left with no content, then a META tag is added to the main template that tells Google not to index the page, and finally you use the Google URL removal tool to remove each post individually from the index. If this sounds like a good amount of work, then you’re right. It’s not terrible bad if you have 200 to 400 posts, but if you have a significantly larger number of posts, then it will be a pain to submit each post URL for removal.

Firstly, you want to switch your Blogger blog to the old Blogger template. You can do that by going into the Edit HTML section in your Blogger blog and choosing Revert to Classic Template. Then you want to remove all of the code between the <Blogger> and </Blogger> tags, leaving just those two tags.

Then you want to add the line <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> section in the template. Then you want to create an account for Google’s Automatic URL Remover tool and then choose Individual URLs: web pages, images, or other files after you click New Removal Request.

This method of removal is from the Blogger team itself and this is how I removed all of my pages from the Google index. The information is listed under How to Delete A Blog in the archives. You have to scroll down about half way down on the page. Within a few days, most of my pages were removed. The nice thing about this method is that it’s very fast and all of your posts are still in Blogger so you don’t have to import everything into WordPress before doing this. All you’re doing is deleting the code that shows your posts on the web site, it does not actually delete your posts from Blogger.

A third method you can use to get your blog out of Google’s index is to delete all of your posts, create a stub post, and then wait a few weeks or months and let Google replace it’s cache with just the stub post. This method of deleting a blog is outlined in an article written by a Blogger user. This method is in the context of deleting a blog so that sploggers (Spam Bloggers) can’t use it again, but it also works in our scenario.

I hope this helps someone in there move from Blogger to WordPress. If you have any questions and comments, please feel free to speak your mind! This may not be the best way, so any updates would be greatly appreciated. I guess the main lesson is to make sure you don’t simply delete your old blog. You either want to redirect it or get it out of the Google cache! Enjoy!

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