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Wordpress has advantages over Blogger for a variety of reasons. Doing a conversion from Blogger to WordPress may be tedious depending on how many posts need to be converted, but it just may be worth the work.

On Blogger, should your account accidentally get wiped out there is no way to recover it. The database to recreate those pages is gone even if you publish posts to your own site because it lives on Blogger’s servers and you’ll have to recreate the content manually.

When it comes to administration and customization, WordPress offers a lot more flexibility over Blogger. WordPress supports open source modification of the core files, categories instead of labels, and WordPress plugins for even more features.

Another key advantage of WordPress is the ability to have categories, the same way you have labels in Blogger. This way you can sort your blog posts efficiently and organize them by topic.

Should you consider keeping your blog for the long term, WordPress is a better choice, and since WordPress is hosted on your own account, you regulate your growth and expansion over time. Sure, Blogger is much easier to use, but it’s good to learn how to use WordPress to it’s full potential.

Moving the existing blog to WordPress provides ease of use and near perfect xhtml code quality, plus optional plugins that were easy to install for added functions of social bookmarks, seo automation, and automatic database backup operation. While Blogger is fine, and my choice for a blog platform, WordPress is considered superior especially for site owners without advanced technical skills.

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Blogger to WordPress Blog Conversion for Jackmasterson.com

The previous custom cms website launch for Masterson Construction earlier this month included an announcement that a matching blog was planned and involved performing a Blogger to WordPress blog conversion. The general contractor matching WordPress blog has been converted and launched.

During evaluation of the blog content it was decided to enhance the seo, or search engine optimization, of all the posts going back two years. Post headlines, URLs, and on page content was changed to improve the seo value. To maintain rank value of these aged pages, custom 301 redirects were included in the htaccess file to forward external links pointing to old file names to the new file names created in the redesign. In addition to posts, labels became categories, plus archive file names all required redirects to maintain the existing seo value, as well.

Moving the existing blog to WordPress provides ease of use and near perfect xhtml code quality, plus optional plugins that were easy to install for added functions of social bookmarks, seo automation, and automatic database backup operation. While Blogger is fine, and my choice for a blog platform, WordPress is considered superior especially for site owners without advanced technical skills.

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