Blogger to Wordpress Pagerank Saver

I’ve written about how important it is to do a proper permanent (301) redirect from an old domain to your current site if you’re switching systems. E.g. If you’re moving from an old Blogspot Blogger blog to you self-hosted Wordpress blog, you must do the permanent thang or you’ll lose any pagerank (PR) your Blogspot blog had.

Anyway, one of the problems that some people face when transferring large Blogspot blogs to their own domain is losing the referrals for individual posts and categories. Thankfully, Wayne Liew spotted a new-ish Wordpress plugin that can take of all these redirects once you’ve made the move without all the rigmarole of hacking your .htaccess file. I’ve not investigated it closely, but it works on your new site and looks for the referral from any of the old Blogspot pages that would otherwise simply redirect to the new site’s homepage and forwards them to the correct post, category or page.

It’s all a bit too late for Significant Figures as it is well over a year since I moved it from Blogspot to the Sciencetext.com domain. Thankfully, the pagerank that the Blogspot version (PR4) migrated to Sciencetext.com and jumped up a notch, so this site luxuriates in a PR5 although without the clean redirects from old individual posts. You can download Blogger Redirector here.