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Sooner or later, everybody moves. Of course, I'm not talking about moving to a new house or even moving out of your parents' house. Today we'll go over the steps necessary to move your website from one host to another one. It's really not complicated. However, the first time you move a website, it will seem really complicated. Like most things in life, though, it's easier if you use a tool that's designed specifically to help you do the job. Fortunately, we have several of those available to us. Why Move Your Website? There are lots of reasons to move your website. Maybe it's gotten so popular that you need a host with higher end services. Or maybe you've found a better price somewhere else. Or, maybe your current host just isn't providing the level of service that you need. Whatever the case may be, sooner or later, you're probably going to move your website. The first time I did it, I was 100% sure I was going to screw it up. And ba...

Many people start their first blog with the awesome and free blogging engine Blogger. As time goes by, however, many bloggers find they need extra control and flexibility that Blogger does not provide. Especially those looking to monetize their blogs. For many of these people, and since you're reading this article you're probably one of them, the next logical step in your blogging career is to move to self-hosted WordPress. Of course, if you've spent much time on Blogger and marketed your posts using social media and such, moving your website could possibly unravel all of your time consuming marketing work. So we'll work to preserve the benefits of your social media marketing efforts by taking a little extra time. If you haven't been blogging long or simply don't care about preserving any old links that might be out on social media (I get it, sometimes you just need a fresh start,) you'll be able to skip some of those steps. I'll let you know...

Just like sometimes people start out with a project and find that they need more resources, sometimes people start a project and then realize that maybe they didn't need all the resources they allocated. This can easily happen with a website. You might start out thinking your website needs all sorts of features (calendar, shopping cart, blog, mailing list, on-board classroom, etc) only to later realize that you only really use a select few of those features you once thought you needed. If you launched your website with WordPress and now find that you don't need all those features or perhaps you started a self-hosted hobby website and now want to save some of that money, you can move your website to Blogger in order to save some money and scope creep (* see below) that can easily come with a WordPress website. Fortunately, moving from WordPress to Blogger is a pretty simple process. Step 1 - Set Up Your Blogger Site Don't take your WordPress website offline just ...