Most blogger want to shift from Blogger platform to Wordpress but worried most of the time of losing traffic, readers and google juice. The other day, while driving my car to go home from work, I saw one of the advertisements on the roadside about something related to Internet marketing and social media; and all of the sudden I started to think of upgrading my blogger hosted blog to a paid hosting.
Since Wordpress is flexible and easy to maintain (apart from cPanel headache for first time user) I don’t see any reasons of why I should not transfer my blog to Wordpress. But, one question remains scary and even going scarier every day; what will happen to all the Google Juice?
This is the current state of this blog
Current Alexa Rank
Migrating from Blogger to Wordpress, I have to consider this entire bigger problem that is hard to ignore: 5 things to consider moving from Blogger to Wordpress
1. What will happen to all of my previous articles on the blogger blog that ranked very high (compare to other posts) in search engines for certain keywords. Shifting these articles to a new platform might lose all that organic search traffic.
2. How about the Link Structures from all the posts of the old blog if the migration ever take place?
3. Do search bots, human beings who come to read your old articles via links from other sites know about the new location? Inserting the new links manually is indeed pain in the arse, i don’t even know if my blog linked from other site that applies nofollow rules.
4. Existing blog readers who are subscribed to my Blogger RSS Feed may be lost forever if they don’t manually update their RSS readers with my new WordPress feed address
5. Considering losing RSS subscribers and search engines rankings, the pageviews will drop and that will seriously impact Advertisement revenue in case you are running ads on your site.
So what is the best solution? If anyone here has any suggestion, I would love to hear. Presently, I am testing the relocation of blogger platform to Wordpress with my
other domain and will see if I can successfully switch with all the Google Juice still intact. If I do, you will see this blog ‘powered by Wordpress’ in the very near time. I just need to trust Google.
Are you too, going to switch? should i get the hosting from
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