A small tip after a migration from blogger to wordpress (redirecting the feed)
After doing any migration from a weblog system to another, one may probably want to avoid loosing visits, right?
It’s quite easy to put messages in your old blog to say that the url of your blog has changed. The problem is that it’s not enough.
Regular viewers may access your blog through feeds. If you just post a note as another regular post and that they hadn’t the time to read it when you had post it, they may just skip it and never read your new articles.
One smart thing to do may be to redirect systematically all people trying to access your old feed to your new feed (not by a simple notice that have to be read, but by using a clean and real web redirection).
Under blogger, it’s just easy to do that: you have a feature to use another source to provide your feeds. Even if the feature was probably created with other ideas in mind (maybe allowing blogger users to use their feedburner feeds), you can use it to provide your new feed to people trying to access your old feed. Below is the exact method :
- Connect to blogger with your account and go to your blog main page. This should be quite easy
- Click on “customize” in the header and then on “settings” (in the “posts”/”settings”/”layout” menu). Note: you can access the setting page directly from your dashboard too.
- Click on “site feed” (in the sub-menu, between “archiving” and “email” on what I’m seeing at the time of writing this post)
- Find the “Post Feed Redirect URL” field in the page. There is a comment below like “If you have burned your post feed with FeedBurner, or used another service to process your feed, (…)”. Just forget the original goal and put the address of your new blog’s feed (not the address of your blog web page but the address of the feed).
- Valid and save the settings.
- It should be ok! Just test!