Importing to WordPress

I’ve got a business blog at famplosion.blogspot.com originally established on Blogger. I’ve been adding posts to the blog for the last couple years and rcently handed over the reigns for the blog to one of my awesome Editors. She’s been cranking out content on the blog and cross linking her heart out. All good, right?

Well, it’s clear to us all now that the true SEO value of the Blog is being missed as long as it is located on Blogspot instead of being hosted on the Famplosion domain. The biggest reason for this is that Google gives traffic credit to Blogspot when the blog is hosted there as opposed to Famplosion.

Being a digital media company, that’s a problem.

So, we decided to move the blog off Blogspot and onto something we could host locally. But once the decision was made then came the issued around transferring that content.

I was a little worried about these issues after having read an article here and there about the challenges of moving content from one blog to another. Plus, there were issues around using Blogger specifically that concerned me. Here’s a link.

Long story short, I was poking around WordPress a little bit last night, and discovered that if I want to migrate content from one blogging platform to WordPress (hosted on my server) there’s a tool for that. Pow!

Here’s an article that describes the process…