What's the best way to transplant a blogger blog to another domain?
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So I have this client who's got a killer blogger blog—tons of inbound links, great content, etc. He wants to move it onto his new website. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a single way to 301 the darn thing. I can do meta refresh and/or JavaScript redirects, but those won't transfer link juice, right? Is there a best practice here? I've considered truncating each post and adding a followed "continue reading…" link, which would of course link to the full post on the client's new site. It would take a while and I'm wondering if it would be worth it, and/or if there are any better ideas out there. Sock it to me.
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Thanks for the feedback! And definitely let us know if you do the cross-domain canonical.
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So I had JS 302s and meta refreshes up for a long time, and eventually some of the links to the old site are now showing up in my Google Webmaster Tools dash for the new site. Just thought anyone else with the same question would like to know. I am going to look more into the cross-domain rel canonical thing too.
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After seeing the Whiteboard Friday about cross-domain canonical, I got to thinking about how do this with Blogger. Not being too familiar with Blogger templates, or how much control you really get, I started Googling around. I found this:
Basically, put a script into your Blogger template, with a link rel canonical for each page you want to redirect.
It looks good to me, but I haven't tested it so I can't be sure.
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Thanks. Do you know if it would make more sense to link from every post to its corresponding post? I would love for someone way into PageRank sculpting to comment or at least point out a good methodology for determining the answer somewhat mathematically!
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There is no way to do this and maintain link juice, I looked into it for a long time a few months back. All you can do is create an export file of your posts and import it into your new software. I could find no way to redirect my blogspot site that would pass the link juice.
My final solution was simply to delete the content and simply have one big link and only one link that simply said "Click here for our new website on [keyword.]"
With just one link at least you are still passing some link juice, its the only way I could find to do it.
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