I’ve finally decided to move my blog from Google Blogger to WordPress! I was hesitant at first and there are mix feelings and opinions with both on the web, which confused me even more! Not to mention that I might lose my PageRank, my URL , etc when I move to WordPress. So what made me do it?
I’m happy with what Blogger has to offer (I hosted my blog on my website through FTP connection) but some people do a move from Blogger to WordPress (if you search in google, you’ll find heaps of the stories). I was hesitant to move at first…
- Can I still maintain my PageRank?
- Can I import my old posts from Blogger to WordPress easily?
- Will I regret my decision and decided to move back to Blogger?
Well honestly the main reason for me to move was the open source idea and the templates.. there are not many good Blogger templates out there. So after browsing around the WordPress templates available, I was touched. I then started installing WordPress in a different folder to play around with and it surprised me with other nifty features not found in Blogger!
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Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe
) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!
Yet another interesting post! A bit short than we expect now from you, but of course, you didn’t have as many readers then!
Are you happy with WordPress now? Do you regret anything? And /did/ you lose your PageRank?
Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance
lol yeah, I was still learning how to write in English (sort of)
I’m so happy with it now and didn’t regret my decision at all. When you get your own domain/hosting, I’d suggest to go for WordPress
Advice taken… a year later.
Geez, now you got me reading this post again, and this made me think of how you said Blogger didn’t have as many updates, well, I forgot to mention on the other comment, but it got another update: official Read More links and options where to cut off your excerpt, without any hacks! 
Things have changed after all! 
…and Wordpress is still better – really, what with creating Wave and stuff, if Google really cared, they could make Blogger amazing.
I’m planning to change my blogger blog to wordpress too but i might lose my PageRank. So before i change to wordpress, maybe you can write some tips about this Michael.
Regards.
Hm..that means you are changing domain names? I think there’s a way to setup redirection so that you don’t lose the PageRank. But I’m not too sure about that at this stage. Need to do some more readings