Retain page rank while moving from blogger to self hosted wordpress

  • We have a popular blog hosted on the blogger platform with a custom domain name. We want to move it to a self hosted WordPress website with the same domain.
    The blog has an authority on 8/10 to 9/10 on certain keywords and a global page rank of 300k.
    I would like to retain the authority and page rank so I don’t lose on my readership or ad revenue.
    Can someone with experience in moving blogs suggest some tips on how to do this in the best way possible.

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  • The way to do that is to set up 301 redirects for every URL that you have indexed. There’s a lot of very good plugins that can do this in WordPress, so that’s the first place to look.

    Just remember that with a major change like this, you will always loose something, even if it’s just for a short time, so don’t freak out too much if rankings and traffic goes down for a while, because if you keep on going the way that you were before the chanage over you’ll be back up there soon enough.

    Thread Starter logicsquaretech

    (@logicsquaretech)

    Hey catacaustic,
    Thanks for the suggestion. Actually I have been using my custom domain name in links that I post on social media sites, readers, clients and everyone else.
    I think that should help soften the impact of the move.
    Other than that I will try the 301 redirects. I just want to make sure I don’t mess it up as a lot of effort went into making this blog popular.

    Thanks!

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