Why I Moved From Blogger To WordPress

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I blog for several reasons.  Writing is a creative outlet for me, and has been for many years.  I’ve learned a lot from other bloggers over the past few years, and I have something to offer as well.  If even one of my quick tips or recipes or cleaning ideas can help someone in a practical way, that’s great!  If one of my ramblings strikes a nerve and gets someone to think, fantastic!  I wanted a place to share what I know and what I’m learning with other people.

I blog for all those great reasons, and I would continue to do so without getting paid.  I like it! but…I also want to make money.  I won’t lie about it.  Blogging as a stay at home income source is a huge deal.  It’s something I can do while still raising and schooling my kids, and it’s a way to contribute to our family’s monetary goals, like paying off debt and traveling.

I want it to look pretty.  Blogger has it’s good points – it’s free, it’s easy to set up and use – but it’s not as professional looking as a WordPress blog with a pretty theme.  Plus now I have all those fancy menu options up at the top, so you can easily go to the category of posts that you want!

I want to own my content.  I want it to be safe and backed up and mine.  After reading posts like this that tell me that I don’t own my content on Blogger, and that if they shut down the site, all my words would be lost, I knew moving would be a good idea. There’s no way (that I know of) to back up your content over there, unless you copy and paste it into a Word document, but that’s not even really the same either.

It was only $7 for the first year.  I recently signed up for a free blogging webinar through Blogelina, and one of the special offers she gave was a WordPress blog set-up with a year of hosting for only $7.  (For those who aren’t aware of blogging and hosting costs, this normally costs between $100-$150/year).  It was a good deal, and I have a year to figure out how to make my first $100 blogging.  If blogging interests you, you can get this deal too!  This was also such a help for me, because I am not a tech-savvy person at all.  The Blogelina crew set everything up for me, and while there was still a bit of a learning curve figuring out the new site, it was far easier than trying to do it all myself.  I highly recommend this deal if you’re at all thinking of switching.

But Blogelina didn’t transfer my content for me.  (They can do that, but it costs more). I’d been blogging for five years, and I had a lot of stuff.  Stay tuned until next time, when I’ll tell you how I transferred from Blogger to WordPress.

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