How to Move my blog from blogger to Paid Hosting
Blogger lets you share your thoughts with the world, but if you want more control over how your blogs are viewed, the kind of content you want to create in a blog or just want more bandwidth for a blog archive, you may want to move to paid hosting. To move my blog from Blogger to paid hosting, I followed these steps.
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Instructions
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Research the paid hosting sites available. Look for sites that offer a site builder as part of their hosting package.
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Select a couple of paid hosting sites that give you the capacity to grow your site. Many of the paid hosting services offer stepped plans for small businesses that can be expanded as your online presence grows.
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Use the additional features of these sites to make a choice of paid hosting service. Along with price and memory space, little extras like free email addresses and site tracking tools will help you pick a service that works for you.
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Set up an account with the paid hosting service. Make sure the site is ready to receive your blogs.
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Download your existing blogs from Blogger. Unless you've been cranking out the equivalent of Moby Dick every day, you should be able to fit your blog collection on a flash disk.
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Upload your blogs from your flash disk or other memory device to your paid hosting service. Depending on your service, you may have a limited amount that you can upload per day.
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Use the paid hosting service's site tools to make your blog entries look good. Use any text editors or other tools to make changes to your blogs in their new home.
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Tips & Warnings
Choose your domain name with care. A good domain name will attract visitors to your site. A bad one will drive them away.
One major advantage to paid hosting is that you can market your products or services without worrying about violating the non-commercial spirit of most free blog sites.
Many paid hosting sites have limits on the amount of data that you can upload in a day. Be sure that you know these limits so that you can estimate the total time it will take to upload your blogs to your new hosted site.
