migrating from blogger

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  tawna6988 · Member · May 17, 2011 at 4:18 pm

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  Anyone migrated from blogger to wordpress all by themselves? I can’t afford to pay someone and I am wondering what I am facing by myself. Any suggestions and good instructions out there that are easy to follow?

  I want to import my posts and not lose my followers.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 17, 2011 at 4:36 pm

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  In your wordpress.com blog go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
  Formatting
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically

  Many people have done this. See here for how to export your Blogger (blogspot) content out of that blog. http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97416
  See here for importing that file into your wordpress.com blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

  Once the importing is complete then reduce the number of posts appearing on the front page of your blogger blog and places a post up with the link to the new blog. Leave it there for a couple of weeks and then make that blog “private” to avoid any duplicate content issues. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 17, 2011 at 4:37 pm

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  This should explain how easy it is:

  Import a Website

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  timethief · Member · May 17, 2011 at 4:40 pm

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  As you are new to WordPress.com and our software works differently than Blogger software, please read this entry so you are clear on what can and cannot be done one a free blog from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  I can recommend a comprehensive tutorial. The Learn WordPress.com tutorial is divided into progressive levels and presented as a series: http://learn.wordpress.com/