301 Permanent Redirect from Blogger Beta to WordPress
Most Bloggers start out with free blog hosting with the most popular of the free services being Google’s blogger where you get a yoursite.blogspot.com address. Now you want to move from Blogger to your own domain. One of the best publishing software is provided by WordPress and the best part is it is free. Importing to WordPress from Blogger used to be a breeze using WordPress’s import posts feature. However when Google moved from Blogger to the new Blogger or Blogger Beta, it became impossible to use WordPress’s import utility.
However, you can now do so with the steps outlined here about Importing Blogger Beta Posts to WordPress
Many users were able to implement this method successfully. Now, we move to the next step. Lets deal with some questions I had so far …
1. What happens to my old blogger blog? Should I just delete it after importing to WordPress?
2. I heard Google penalizes duplicate content. I now have my posts at both my old blogger blog and my new Wordpress blog hosted on my domain. What should I do?
3. You mentioned using the 301 permanent redirect from blogger to wordpress. Can i do it?
Okay … lets deal with these questions first.
1. No, you should not delete your Blogger blog. I am sure you worked hard at it. You might have many subscribers to that blog. The search engines have content indexed to that blog. What happens if you delete your blogger blog is simple … you end up LOSING ALL YOUR TRAFFIC, all your loyal subscribers and visitors simply because they dont know your new address.
2. Yes, Google penalizes duplicate content. How do you deal with this.. well read on
3. When people move from their old website to a new one they use a 301 permanent redirect method without being penalized by the search engines. However, you cannot do this straight up with Blogger because you do not have access to your .htaccess file. So its not a simple plug and play unfortunately because of this.
How to redirect your old Blogger posts to your New wordpress blog posts using a permanent redirect
I wanted to thank Owen Barder for his excellent code to redirect your individual posts from blogger to wordpress. Also, thanks to Tom Sherman. I will try to stick to what these two guys have to tell.
Using the method outlined here, you will be able to
1. Redirect your visitors from your old Blogger blog to your WordPress Blog on your domain
2. Redirect your old posts to new posts on your wordpress blog instead of redirecting them just to your home page of your wordpress blog
3. Do all this in such a way that Google does not penalize you. You also get to transfer your Google Page Rank too. How about that ….. !
Step # 1: Import from Blogger Beta to your WordPress domain
I am assuming that you backed up your blog and Imported to your WordPress domain from the new Blogger or Blogger Beta. If you didn’t do, check out my article on Import from Blogger Beta to WordPress
Step # 2: Modify your Blogger Template to include redirects
Log into your Blogger account. Go to Template and then Edit HTML. Paste the code shown below where you replace http://www.yoursite.com with the root URL of your Wordpress Blog
a. Add the code below after <Blogger> in your template
<MainOrArchivePage>
<script language=”javascript”><!–
var blog_root=http://www.yoursite.com/;
document.location.href=blog_root;
//–></script>
</MainOrArchivePage><ItemPage>
<script language=”javascript”><!–
var process_page=”http://www.yoursite.com/bloggerposts.php”;
var newpage=process_page;
var oldlink=”<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>”;newpage+=”?p=”+oldlink;
newpage=newpage.toLowerCase();
document.location.href=newpage;
//–></script>
</ItemPage>
b. Add the line shown here somewhere in between the <head> ..</head> tags of your blog
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=http://www.yoursite.com/” />
Notice the space between /” and the />
somewhere in between the <head></head> tags like this:
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=http://www.yoursite.com”>
</head>
Step # 3: Prepare your WordPress blog for Redirects
a. Open Notepad. Copy and paste the code given below. Save it as bloggerposts.php or anything else you want and put it in the root location of your wordpress blog. By root, I mean not in any wp-admin or any other folder, but in the root and the link should be something like http://www.yoursite.com/bloggerposts.php
<?php
require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].’/blog/wp-blog-header.php’);
$search_link = $_GET['p'];
$vars = explode(’/', $search_link);
$num = count($vars) - 1;
$filename = $vars[$num];
$slug = str_replace(”.html”, “”, $filename);$SQL = “SELECT posts.* FROM $wpdb->posts AS posts WHERE posts.post_name = ‘$slug’ LIMIT 1″;
$posts = $wpdb->get_results(”$SQL”);if ($posts) {
foreach ($posts as $post) {
$found_link = get_permalink($post->ID);
}
}
else
{
$found_link = “http://www.yoursite.com/”;
}?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Redirecting…</title>
<script language=”javascript”><!–
document.location.href=”<?php echo ($found_link); ?>”;
//–></script><meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”2;url=<?php echo ($found_link); ?>”>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Redirecting…</h1>
<p>You can also proceed immediately to <a href=”<?php echo ($found_link); ?>”><?php echo ($found_link); ?></a>.</p>
<p>The main blog URL is <a href=”http://www.yoursite.com/” mce_href=”http://www.yoursite.com/”>www.yoursite.com</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
All you need to do in the above code is wherever you see http://www.yoursite.com , change it to the root location of your WordPress blog. What this code is doing is taking the URL from Step # 2 and redirect the user to the corresponding entry in your wordpress blog. In case it does not find the corresponding entry, it redirects to the homepage of your blog.
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May 5th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Hey Ryan Ferone,
You say that “a. Add the code below after in your template“, but there no tag like that in blogger template code. Secondly, after i put that code in tags and tried to save the code, this error showed;
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute "{1}" associated with an element type "http-equiv".
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July 10th, 2008 at 2:35 am
Woohoo! Wasn’t working for a while - getting Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘]’ in bloggerposts.php on line 5, and also blogger error codes - but after following some other suggestions here in the comments it directs to my new website homepage. Posts are redirecting to homepage only, but oh well, still very happy with the result!!
Tweaks: I made doubly sure that I had selected revert to classic template from the template > edit html pane. I searched for all curly ” and , in ALL code (i.e. in template and php file) and replaced with straight ones. I changed the meta code NOFOLLOW to FOLLOW.
Hope that helps others, thanks for posting this Ryan and others for their helpful comments, really appreciate the time you’ve put into it.
July 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Ryan’s tutorial is bad for 3 reasons: 1) You can’t copy and paste his code without fixing a lot of the curly quote marks, as those will be interpreted as errors by anything interpreting the code. 2) The code is way outdated, and doesn’t account for things like SEO, timestamps, and forwarding individual posts successfully. 3) I could not get it to work except to forward just to the home page, which doesn’t come off as convenient for me. If people actually find the blog entry they’re looking for and then just end up at the homepage of your new blog, they will leave. They will not search on your blog for the entry.
I’ve written up a tutorial that does what I think is the best job of forwarding your blog, and this is based upon reading a lot of instructions, failing a lot, and finally figuring out a solid solution.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 1:05 am
Is there any solution to just redirect the blogger blog to some other website? i mean you have to upload the file in your wordpress account in the method you mentioned. I just want my blog to redirect to some other website without uploading any thing. is it possible?
April 7th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I’m sorry, but after implementing this recipe, the response for all Blogger clients remains HTTP 2OO OK, not HTTP 301 PERMANENT REDIRECT. It’s is true that modern browsers will perform a Redirect, but search engines and other robots, won’t.
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Hey Ryan, Nice guide. I’d like to add, if you don’t mind, that for Google and other search engines that the best way to redirect to a new URL is to use a 301. It’s not the easiest task but it is possible for those that really need to preserve their search rankings.
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February 16th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Great and easy to follow steps Ryan, I really do appreciate this. Does this still work with current Wordpress installs?
March 1st, 2010 at 2:18 am
I went through a similar process recently and am constantly tweaking to improve the migration if you are interested I documented my experiences and process of migration.
You did the redirect however a 301 redirect is slightly different usually sent by the server and this is what I have been searching for.