moving from blogger to WP, mapped domain..then what?
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Hi,
I had a custom domain from blogger, and Im trying to move to WP.com. I’ve followed the steps of importing my blog, changing my name server, mapping existing domain to WP..then what? I’m confused because when I go to http://www.salondeg.com (my blog), it still shows my old blogger template?
Also, how can I keep my google analytics stats..can I move these to the WP stats?
Lastly, how can I keep my google page rank?Very frustrated, please help!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It can take up to 72 hours for the address to settle down, so just be patient. It is resolving to a WordPress blog for me; by the way, you’ll want a wider width in your central column, as many of your pictures are too wide and overlap the sidebar.
You will NOT be able to use Google Analytics at WordPress.com. It requires access to the underlying program that we do not have here. It’s quite different and there are more restrictions because the inner workings of our blogs are shared with everyone using the same theme, which means that security has to be a lot tighter.
Your pagerank should remain the same, provided you had the custom domain long enough that the inbound links are going to it instead of the blogspot domain.
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Thanks for the advice.. I screwed up yesterday by clicking “revert from custom domain to blogspot domain” in my blogspot account and I had to start all over again (i.e. change DNS settings to original, wait for it, then restart the mapping process). THat should be the correct way right?
I mapped the domain once more about..7 hrs ago, still shows my blogspot version..hope fully it’ll switch soon!~
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You should definitely hide it if it’s got the same posts as you have at WordPress.com: Google hates duplicated content and will penalize both blogs if it sees the same post in more than one place.
But I always say never delete anything that’s free: just set it to Private or password-protect it or something and then you’ll be fine. If nothing else, it can serve as a backup of your content here!
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Ok, so everything’s been going smoothly until I realized if you search for my blog on google, all the links are still directing to my old blogspot feeds. How can I make sure it directs to my new WP site??
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I don’t understand: if you had the custom URL on Blogspot, the URLs will go here when people click them. The feeds would I guess depend how blogspot feeds are set up. Are they not http://whatever.com/feed? If the feed address has changed, I don’t think google will update the pre-existing feed listings. The new feed listings will come to WP, the old ones to Blogspot.
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Actually maybe Im not asking the question right..(sorry I’m technologically un-savvy when it comes to these things)
What’s happening right now though, is if you go onto google and search for “salondeg”, you do see my webpage, but you don’t see my newest posts that I posted via WP. You only see the posts I did via blogspot.
I’ve also made some updates to my old posts to fix the formatting, using WP – if you click on these links via google, you end up getting a 404 error msg.
(e.g. http://salondeg.com/2010/08/best-meal-of-my-life.html)I’m not really sure what’s happening here…
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Can you give me the actual link to the post? If you edited it, it’s possible the permalink changed.
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This is just one of the examples..here’s the link to the particular post I mentioned above.
http://salondeg.com/2010/08/18/i-will-die-happy-of-high-cholesterol/
Another example:
On google search: http://salondeg.com/2010/07/el-bulli-pirated-version.html
Correct link: http://salondeg.com/2010/07/19/el-bulli-the-pirated-version/ -
Well, if you change the name and the date, it will change the permalink. You can go back and edit those at least.
Permalinks at WordPress do not end in .html either. I’m assuming that when the date/name of the permalink haven’t changed the .html redirects properly to the new URL without it, correct?
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hmm, I think I’m going to give up on the old permalinks. Will google re-index (or whatever jargon they use) my site if I don’t do anything about it?
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Yes, but the problem is, all the links from other sites and even from within your site going to those old permalinks will now be broken. Every broken link is a signal to Google to downgrade your blog. It will ultimately cost you.
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Do it on WP; realize there are two aspects that need to be edited:
1) the date. Put the date back to the original date (it’ll be the same as the date on the Blogspot blog post. You have to do this via the sidebar Schedule option, on the right-hand side. You don’t edit this part of the permalink where you’d edit the title part.
2) the title. Once you change a title on a post here, WP’s “helpful” autosave usually changes your permalink too. Just edit the permalink using the little Edit button beside it to change the title part of the permalink; you can leave the ACTUAL title whatever you like, it doesn’t matter.
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you ROCK! All sorted. The links from google are working now..I’m just glad I didn’t have like a hundred posts..
I should be done with this whole migration crap now right? I hope…?
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