How to Get Your Site Properly Indexed After Migrating from WordPress to Blogger
Migrating a website can feel like stepping into a maze, especially when moving from WordPress to Blogger. I recently went through this myself and ran into a major headache: pages that existed on my old WordPress site were no longer valid on Blogger, but they were still showing up in Google Search. Visitors clicking on those links were being sent to nowhere, and my site wasn’t being indexed properly. Here’s what happened: When I moved my content over, Blogger uses different URLs than WordPress. A WordPress page like iamjanel.com/janel automatically becomes iamjanel.com/p/janel on Blogger. This broke all the old URLs, leaving Google with a list of pages that no longer existed. Even though my site had HTTPS enabled and the DNS was properly pointing to the domain, the search console flagged these URLs as “not found” or invalid. I initially worried that I would have to manually remove every old URL, but after digging into Google Search Console, I realized there’s a better approach. Goo...