Thank you. I visited your blog, excellent work. Good move today to start to use your own URL – http://www.mycouponteacher.com.

I am not sure how you are monetizing your blog, so I cannot say with certainty the WP would improve your chances of profitability. But I believe WP can be easier to manage a complex blog with multiple pages, is easier to participate access a wide array of social media. And does have some advantages for search marketing optimization.

May 2010 meet all your goals!

Thanks!

I’m going to start the transfer today and I’ll let you know how everything goes.

I am finding the the process of importing the content directly from your Blogspot blog to self-hosted WordPress is much better these days. So try it that way before you use the alternative WordPress.com step.

1) Your content will stay on your Blogspot blog, you are only importing a copy to WordPRess. It is also important to realize that your images will not be imported, but will be served from your Blogspot blog. That is the reason to never delete your Blogspot blog. Also please note my new Step 0 and back up your Blogspot blog before beginning.

When you have completed Step 6 people will no longer see your Blogspot blog. Instead they will be sent to the same content in your new blog.

As far as creating your new WordPress blog, I think once you begin you will find WordPress is simpler to customize. To find a free theme, just go to the WordPress theme repository (there are thousands of themes there) and browse through some of the most popular, most recent and featured themes – http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ .

A few questions, I hope you can answer.

This is my situation: I have a pretty large blog on blogger and it’s need it own website. So I’ve decided to go with wordpress. You were saying that its best to transfer the blog to a wordpress blog first then to a selfhosted wordpress site.

1. While I’m transferring, will the information on my blogger blog be lost? As in when people go to my “name.blogspot.com” blog will they still see the blog as is, even though I’m transferring it into wordpress?

I want to edit the wordpress blog before I have people come on it, so any helpful facts you can give would be great. I’m great at blogger, but not so much at wordpress and I will be creating the site and everything on my own.

You need to set your Blogspot blog to not allow search engines. This will help slowlt remove the listing in Google. At the same time be sure you allow search engines in WP and are creating a sitemap and informing them of its location.

The redirect message probably costs you a lot of traffic. With all the spam, no one wants to follow a reditect. So you should consider the other way which makes a seamless script redirect to your WP post or the original Blogspot post. No redirect warning will be seen or require any more action by the visitor..

I have another questions for you. If I have the redirect set up for my blogspot.com site going to my domain, is there another step I should take to ensure google isn’t crawling it any longer? I am using the assumption you have listed in that I never changed my blogspot address to an official domain.

I’m still seeing the blogspot address show up in searches, but when you click on the link it says there is a redirect and directs people to my domain, which is perfect. Is there a way to take it out of searches completely? I still want the older links from other sites to direct them to my new site, but I don’t want google searching it and potentially viewing it as duplicate content.

I appreciate any thoughts you can share!

It seems the Fantastico install script is partially disabled on your hosting account. This meant that it seemed like WP was installing, but never really fully did. Fortunately the database wizard is functional so since I am in your account … I will go ahead and set WP up for you with the “old school” manual install. ~Karma

Thanks