Final Issues: Moving Blogger to WordPress with Your Own Domain Name - Google Webmaster and Analytics Code Needs to Be Updated

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One of the last things that you need to resolve is the Google Webmaster Tools account for your new WordPress blog. This also extends to other Google products, such as Google Analytics or Google AdSense.

According to Google's technical guidelines, the moment you have transferred your blog to WordPress, you should add the site to Google Webmaster Tools and submit an XML sitemap. To read more details go here, and if you do not have an XML sitemap plug-in, you can install one from WordPress.

The purpose of this is to enable Google to pick up those new URLs as early as possible. Here are some tips: 

• Add your new WordPress blog to Google Webmaster Tools.
  
• Do not delete the Google Webmaster Tools account for your old blog (Blogspot), in order to provide data if you need to do some troubleshooting. For example, you'll need the account to check if there are 404s in your old URL so you can correct them to forward traffic to your correct/new URLs
  
• Do not include the redirected URLs in the sitemap; only include the final or destination URLs. This will avoid errors in the sitemap.

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