Blogger to WordPress Redirect Blues

Making the move from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress is one more example of the life-long learning that is the sine qua non of the geek world.

I only add this note for anybody considering doing the same: If you have consolidated your Blogger feeds under Feedburner, you do not need to create a new feed for your new URL (like this beyond-school.org one). Instead, you simply edit your Feedburner feed for your old blog, and past your new URL’s info in one text box. That’s it (I think).

So far, my old Blogger Beyond School still has 220 subscribers or so, while only 70 or so people have subscribed to this new site in the last 12 days or so (and a big thanks to those 70).

So if changing the old Feedburner feed did indeed work, my posts here should pop up in the readers of people who only subscribed to the old “BS.”

Now here’s the rub: I now have two Feedburner feeds for this blog. *Sigh.* Anybody else gone down this road want to suggest a way to gently consolidate everything without losing any new or old subscribers?

Here’s the next issue, for those interested in these complications: redirecting the hyper-links to your old Blogger blog to your new one.

Apparently, Google and other search engines “penalize” people like me who simply imported content from one site to another. “Double-posting” or something like that is a no-no. So I’ve been trying to put a permanent 301 redirect in the Blogger template. It worked on the homepage, but links to any permalink articles cause a minor nuclear meltdown for Firefox browsers, so I undid it.

I’m all ears if anyone knows the trick for a 301 Redirect from Blogger to here that also redirects individual post permalinks.

I’ll stop there. And say (if it worked), “Welcome, old Blogger BS readers.”

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