Will I lose my backlinks if I switch from blogger to wordpress??

[dcc1980]

I hope this post is the right category.

I have an established blog and I want to switch to wordpress for more flexibility. My question is, will I lose all of my backlinks????

Is there any way to switch over and somehow get my back links to transfers??

[Presto Smith]

It depends... For example if your backlinks all point to your generic blog page:

www.examplesite.com/blog

Then you could just move your new wordpress blog to the same page and the links will still point to your blog. The danger is if people have backlinks that go to certain articles, for example:

www.examplesite.com/blog?article=examplearticle

or something like that. If this is the case then you will have a harder time preserving your links depending upon how many articles you have.

You can always talk to a web developer and have them set-up redirects for all your pages. This way if someone tries to visit an old link after you have made the move then they will be redirected to the new page that you specify. Good luck

[davidtong]

I believe he's planning to switch from free Blogger account to another free Wordpress account... I don't think you can do 301 with free platforms.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by davidtong

I believe he's planning to switch from free Blogger account to another free Wordpress account...

I believe not, David.

Surely nobody would do that with a blog that's monetised in any way and risk immediate deletion for breaching Wordpress.com's terms of service? (That really would be "out of the frying pan and into the fire", wouldn't it?).

I believe he's planning to switch from Blogger to self-hosted Wordpress - which many people wisely do (and more should).

Originally Posted by dcc1980

My question is, will I lose all of my backlinks????

It depends what they're links to. If you've been using your own domain-name at Blogger, and the links are to a domain-name you own, you don't need to lose them. If they're to a Blogspot subdomain, it would be good to try to change the ones you can.

[davidtong]

I must've understood the question wrongly... I hope he's switching to a self-hosted platform if that's the case

[oclseo]

Originally Posted by dcc1980

I hope this post is the right category.

I have an established blog and I want to switch to wordpress for more flexibility. My question is, will I lose all of my backlinks????

Is there any way to switch over and somehow get my back links to transfers??

Yes, if your blog is free hosted by them, because your blog will have different url.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by oclseo

Yes, if your blog is free hosted by them, because your blog will have different url.

Not necessarily. Thousands of people use Blogspot's free hosting but redirect their own domain-name to it and build their backlinks to their own domain-name, in which case what you're saying simply wouldn't apply, and the blog - after being moved elsewhere - would still have the same url.

[Josh Karteson]

Originally Posted by dcc1980

I hope this post is the right category.

I have an established blog and I want to switch to wordpress for more flexibility. My question is, will I lose all of my backlinks????

Is there any way to switch over and somehow get my back links to transfers??

There is a Blogger to WordPress re-direction plugin available, which re-directs your current blog-posts to respective posts of new WordPress blog. Hence all your back-links will automatically send traffic to new WordPress blog.

Here is a tutorial and link Blogger To WordPress 1-to-1 Permalink Redirection Plugin --- bloggertowp[dot]org/blogger-to-wordpress-redirection-plugin

Hope it helps.

Cheers!

[amritrr]

Yes, you will definitely loose your backlinks. Even if you have a proper domain name, only those links back to your domain will remain and the rest will be lost. A blog has a lot of urls and you cannot do 301 on every url.

[donkiston]

yes you will lose your back links and indexing pages when you change your website domain name.

[faysal969]

You will lost all of your backlinks if your are using free domain like aaaaa.blogspot.com. If your are using a custom domain then you will have no problem. Just host the domain in new hosting.

[glennforum]

If you are intending to transfer from one free account to another then it will be an avenue for you to lose your backlinks since they point to a specific subdomain different from where you are trying to transfer to.