Migrating from Blogger to WordPress with the same domain without losing SEO rank

  • Hi guys.
    I am preparing the migration of my website currently hosted on blogger to wordpress. I have already hired host, installed wordpress and imported the old blog posts. For now I’m working on a subdomain like this https://stage.mywebsite.com/

    When I finish the adjustments in wordpress, I intend to point my current domain (mywebsite.com) to the wordpress site. However, the blogger will either have to stay with the original basic domain (mywebsite.blogspot.com) or I could create a subdomain for it as old.mywebsite.com. The old page already has a good ranking in google for several keywords of my interest. I will also do a redirect generated by the wordpress plugin “Blogger to WordPress Extended”.

    My concern is that pointing the domain to WordPress will cause Google to no longer find the old pages, because they will have the domain changed either to blogspot or to the subdomain I create for it.

    What would be the best solution for this case?

    Note: I do not intend to create a new domain for my new website. Just move the current one.

    Thank you very much.

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  • You should migrate stage.mywebsite.com to mywebsite.com. Not pointing mywebsite.com to stage.mywebsite.com

    My concern is that pointing the domain to WordPress will cause Google to no longer find the old pages, because they will have the domain changed either to blogspot or to the subdomain I create for it.

    It is not valid concern. Google only knows your domain (mywebsite.com), which is now pointing to your WordPress site. Google does not care the now mywebsite.blogspot.com (you might want to hide it though)

    All the old pages should exists on your WordPress. Make sure you have imported the blog posts and do the redirection correctly (blogspot has different permalink structure)

    Track “404 page not found error” to find any missing redirection/contents.

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