How to Move from Blogger to WordPress Using Your Own Domain Name

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You may have started out with a Blogger blog, but now you feel as if you've outgrown it. You want to give your readers more. You've heard that WordPress offers lots of options, and that it's easier to optimize it for the search engines, so you'll have an easier time increasing your readership. If you own your own domain, it's easy to move your Blogger blog and make it into a WordPress blog. This three-part series takes you step by step through the process.Almost every new person starts a blog with Blogger (www.blogger.com), a free blogging service owned by Google. This seems to be a practical solution at first for the following reasons:

• It is free; users do not need to spend money on registering domain names and hosting services. 
  
• It is very easy to use and does not need an in-depth knowledge of web programming, unlike building entire web sites with PHP and ASP.

However, as time goes by, your knowledge of building websites will increase; so will your desire (and demand) for more website features to improve your users' experiences. Currently Blogger cannot support a lot of website features vital for building a stable and professional website.

This is when people starting wanting to use WordPress (wordpress.org), an open source blog publishing platform. Using WordPress offers an entirely different experience from using Blogger because it can handle two very important things:

• Website templates (using the PHP programming language).
  
• MySQL databases.

I will assume this doesn't scare you because of your experience in that field, but you need to be aware of one serious problem that can surely affect the profitability of your website. Moving from Blogger to WordPress means that you risk losing TRAFFIC and SEARCH ENGINE rankings.

This is particularly true if you have a great blog hosted before with Blogger and if you REALLY need to move to WordPress. In that case, keep reading this article.

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