Blogspot to Wordpress

I have a blogspot blog and I want to move to my own domain using wordpress. How do I go about doing this? The blog is relatively new but I'm thinking it would be better to start on my own as early as possible.

I want to know if there's an easy way to do this without much affecting my readers and my visitor count from search engines. I don't know much about technical stuff but would you recommend a general shared hosting or one that specializes on hosting wordpress blogs? is there a difference?

Thanks.

Considering to move from Blogger/Blogspot to Wordpress? good. From an SEO perspective I can't stress enough how important it is...

Thanks for the reply heart. That's what I was thinking as well. I found this after searching in google for the nth time about my issue:

http://www.labnol.org/internet/switc...ordpress/9707/
i don't know if the method mentioned in the post will still work seeing that it was written in 2009.


My other question is, is there a difference between a normal web host vs a webhost that specializes in hosting wordpress? It might make sense to go to a host specializes in wordpress. but it costs more than regular hosts ive seen so far and im thinking that a webhost saying they specialize in wordpress is only doing it for marketing purposes. thoughts?

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My other question is, is there a difference between a normal web host vs a webhost that specializes in hosting wordpress?

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I believe that specialization means that the provider knows how to keep everything working..
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Hi,

This one should help you migrate your existing Blogspot website to WordPress: http://ourtimes.wordpress.com/2008/0...nto-wordpress/

Best of luck! :)

Thanks for the links, I've been thinking of moving my blog to wordpress and this has helped.

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