Migrating from Blogger to WordPress

How to Migrate from Blogger to WordPress

Welcome, dear visitor, to this article which might be a bit lengthy :) Please make sure to read every line.
First of all, since you are here, specifically in this article, you are looking for a way or a definitive guide that proves the migration from Blogger to WordPress is a 100% successful process. So how can you do it?
Well, if you are wondering about this, as the manager of Tech World, I assure you that our site was initially on the Blogger platform and we successfully migrated to WordPress with a 100% success rate.
You might be asking now...

Which is Better? WordPress or Blogger (Pros and Cons of Each)

Here we need to pause a bit because the answer isn’t straightforward; I can’t simply say Blogger is better or WordPress is better.
Let’s share our experience instead of going too far. We at Tech World, after going through this experience, can clearly state that WordPress is far superior to Blogger, and the following points explain why WordPress is better....

• - WordPress has many designers and developers who can help you customize your site as you wish, and there’s nothing that you won’t find available for modification.
• - WordPress has a very large library of themes that you can use, but in reality, they are more expensive than those available for Blogger, where a good theme can cost around $70 on average, while you won’t find such prices on Blogger, as the average price for a good theme is $10 (USD).
• - WordPress requires some things that Blogger can spare you from. For example, you must have a paid hosting service for your site to operate continuously with fewer issues. The average cost for hosting is $80 annually for a site with fewer than 10,000 daily visitors. If the number of visits is higher, we can discuss this further in another article. You can also work on your site using free hosting provided by some sites, but they come with many problems and are often only beneficial for small sites that are still under construction.
• - In WordPress, you are responsible for securing your site yourself, and you can only blame yourself if your site gets hacked or stolen. However, in Blogger, you are under the protection of the "big lion," which is Google, that takes care of your site's security and stability.
• - In Blogger, you can upload images or videos without worrying about their size, as everything is free. In the world of WordPress, you are limited by a certain usage rate known as disk usage, which governs how you deal with the allocated space. If this disk fills up, your site will stop working, and you can either upgrade your hosting or change it to get your site back online. You are bound by certain commitments in WordPress.
  
• - In Blogger, Google can easily shut down your site overnight just because you violated one of its terms, or your blog might be deleted by mistake. In WordPress, such matters are not as easy as they are in Blogger; the process is much freer, and there are very large sites that violate Google’s standards on WordPress, and Google cannot take any action against them except to block the site from its search engine.

These were some clear differences between the two platforms, but there are still other differences that are hard to list completely in this article.

What Will Happen When Migrating a Blogger Blog to WordPress?

There are some things you need to know when migrating to WordPress, which are as follows:
- First and foremost, you will not lose your indexing and ranking in search results; this is guaranteed, but it is subject to certain conditions. So what are these conditions?.....
These conditions are represented in some points, and perhaps the most important ones are: the following.....
1- The internal link conversion process from Blogger to WordPress, meaning you will have to do a very tedious manual job if you have a large number of articles, as you will need to convert the old links from Blogger to the new link that fits WordPress manually 100% by adding a free (REDIRECTION) available on the WordPress store (only suitable for paid domains).
2- If you own a free domain, you will lose all your visitors, your indexing, and the domain and page authority. You will also lose all the links that were shared on social media, as there will be a redirect error. So if you have a free domain, you will be starting from scratch.
3- If you have a very large number of articles, you will lose some images from some articles. The priority for losing images will be for older articles; the newer the publication date, the less likely you are to lose some images from the article. You can copy the article with its images from Blogger and paste it into WordPress to maintain the structure of the article as it was in Blogger; there’s no problem with that (this is what happened when we migrated our site to WordPress).
4- You will not lose domain-specific features like domain authority or page authority if you follow the steps outlined in this article (for paid domains only).
5- You will need to create a new Webmaster account because the old account that belonged to your Blogger blog will become useless after migrating to WordPress and will give you errors on all the maps you submitted to Google.

Steps to Migrate from Blogger to WordPress

These are the steps to migrate a Blogger blog to WordPress, keeping in mind that the hosting you will use is from Namecheap. These steps will be explained in videos subsequently, and these videos are from the channel (Tech and Investment World) on YouTube.

First, here’s a general introduction to the migration process, potential risks, and an overview of the differences between the two platforms (click here to watch)
And here are some tips you should know before starting the migration process (click here to watch)

1. Purchase hosting from Namecheap Value Host (click here to watch)
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2. Change the username in the cPanel (click here to watch)
3. Link the domain to the hosting from Namecheap (click here to watch)
4. Upload WordPress to the hosting (click here to watch)
5. Create databases and install WordPress (click here to watch)
6. WordPress settings