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Will migrating my Blogspot blog to Wordpress kill all my organic traffic and search engine optimization?
Is there any way to mitigate the effects?
I’m reluctant to upgrade
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Inappropriate?There's no way around it: you'll lose some of the traffic and SEO benefits.
However, there are some tricks you can pull to make it less bad... one thing I do when moving a Blogger blog is change the template to automatically forward visitors to a search for the blog post on the new site. The result is that it takes only one more click, so it's not painful for those who followed a link.
That still won't take care of the SEO part, but most of my clients have found that it only takes a month or two to rank as high (or higher) with a new WordPress blog as their old Blogger blog did.
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Inappropriate?I totally had this question too, but I did it anyway. Here's my blog post describing what I did to migrate so I wouldn't lose all my traffic: http://gwenelle.wordpress.com/2008/02...
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Inappropriate?C..mon guys, you are thinking too primitive. In this era of permanent redirects why you are thinking of loosing traffic.. why you even have the visitor wait for 6 seconds. There should be zero waiting period ideally. If you could collect information about all existing URLs of blogger and apply 301 redirect on URL-by-URL basis you will not loose search enegine rankings. I used to work for a SEO company where we applied this technique when we changed the name of a cmpany. For first month, the traffic was down, however from next month it picked up gain. Hope it helps.
PS: You can search on google on how to apply 301 redirects for your specific case. If you are not very comfortable with applying redirects then post a project on Elance.com or getafreelancer.com and you could have all your work done for $100 or less.
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Inappropriate?I'd agree with alightedme if you had that option (that's what I do when moving from other systems).
However, as far as I know, if it's hosted on Blogspot, there's no way to do 301s... they don't run server-side code that can modify the headers, and there's no FTP or .htaccess option. I wish this wasn't the case, but I'm not aware of any 301 Redirect methods that work without any of the above.
