How to Leave Blogger
Blogger is once again having issues this weekend. For those of you who may be considering your own domain, here is what I've done (so far) to preserve this blog and make the transition easy for myself.
Simply moving your blog won't help you if the Blogger login screen is busted. But, it will keep your blog from going down or losing posts when blogger has issues.
It wasn't hard to do, and I would recommend it as an intermediate step on the road to Wordpress or something else.
Blogger can republish everything exactly as is (template and all) to your new domain. The tricky part (if you chose to care) is deactivating all your old stuff on blogspot. I'm still working on that. I want to modify the template, so that my old posts mention the new .com address and the main blog forwards you automatically. It won't be difficult, but it's really easy to accidentally screw up the template. Belle sent me a tip on how to forward traffic: http://www.web-source.net/html_redirect.htm. You have to switch back and forth a few times from posting to Blogger vs. posting to your FTP/domain. I accidentally screwed up my blogspot blog by altering the settings on one of my other blogs. It seems that one of the "Settings" pages held old data and caused this other blog to publish over my sub2change blog. Nice, huh?
I'm also going back into all my posts and changing the url links to the new .com address. It's not as hard as it sounds, because you can download all your posts and search for the blogspot domain. Then, you just need to do the time consuming part: republishing each post.
I've also had good luck moving my web counters and the TTLB stats over to the new blog. You have to look at each counter on a case-by-case basis to see if you can take it with you. TTLB, for example, lets you have a number of aliases for your blog.
Simply moving your blog won't help you if the Blogger login screen is busted. But, it will keep your blog from going down or losing posts when blogger has issues.
It wasn't hard to do, and I would recommend it as an intermediate step on the road to Wordpress or something else.
Blogger can republish everything exactly as is (template and all) to your new domain. The tricky part (if you chose to care) is deactivating all your old stuff on blogspot. I'm still working on that. I want to modify the template, so that my old posts mention the new .com address and the main blog forwards you automatically. It won't be difficult, but it's really easy to accidentally screw up the template. Belle sent me a tip on how to forward traffic: http://www.web-source.net/html_redirect.htm. You have to switch back and forth a few times from posting to Blogger vs. posting to your FTP/domain. I accidentally screwed up my blogspot blog by altering the settings on one of my other blogs. It seems that one of the "Settings" pages held old data and caused this other blog to publish over my sub2change blog. Nice, huh?
I'm also going back into all my posts and changing the url links to the new .com address. It's not as hard as it sounds, because you can download all your posts and search for the blogspot domain. Then, you just need to do the time consuming part: republishing each post.
I've also had good luck moving my web counters and the TTLB stats over to the new blog. You have to look at each counter on a case-by-case basis to see if you can take it with you. TTLB, for example, lets you have a number of aliases for your blog.
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