Migrating From Blogger to WordPress with Permalinks

I have used wordpress for almost six months for my AndD Journal but I started Techravings.info at blogger interface. Now I am back to wordpress. Migrating from wordpress to blogger is easy. You just need to import your blogger posts from blogger.com to your wordpress blog using the import interface provided by wordpress. Easy, isn’t it?

However, the most common trouble for many bloggers migrating from blogger.com to a wordpress blog is that they loose their permalinks and consequently, their link popularity which they built for their blogger blog. An easy way to keep your link popularity and your pagerank is to modify your wordpress permalink structure.

The default blogger permalink structure is:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

This means that if you create a post in January 2009 with title as  “XYZ” on abc.com domain, then your post permalink would be

http://abc.com/2009/01/xyz.html

Now if you move your blog from blogger.com to wordpress, the permalink would be modified to something like -  http://abc.com/?p=123

In this way, all your link building effort at blogger will be ruined.

To keep your link building effort preserved, follow these steps:

1. Login to your wordpress blog’s admin area.

2. Click on ‘Settings’ and then on ‘Permalinks’

3.  In the custom structure, enter following code:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

4.  Save settings.

5. You are done. Now all your permalinks will be same as your blogger permalinks.

Sometimes you may get an error as follows:

You can correct this error as follows:

This error means that either you do not have a .htaccess file on your root directory or your .htaccess file is not writable.  If you have .htaccess file in your root directory , follow from step 4 and if you have .htaccess file, begin from step 1.

1. Open Notepad or other text editor and create a blank file and save it by any name.

2. Upload it to your server.

3. Rename the file you uploaded to .htaccess

4. Set the permission of the .htaccess file to ‘766‘ and save.

5. Now login to wordpress admin area again and try to change permalink structure again.

Hope this tutorial helps you. Please feel free to link to this post and tell fellow bloggers about it.

Tagged as: blogger, how to, permalinks, Wordpress