I currently have a blog at blogger.com with a custom domain name. I have decided to manage my own blog using wordpress to be able to fully take advantage of all the cool wordpress plugins. Note that I am moving my domain as well. I won’t be purchasing a new one.
I experimented a bit and found out that I can replicate the blogger URLs on my old blog and use the same on my new wordpress blog. For example, a Blogger URL for an article would look something like mydomain.com/this-is-my-title.htm. WordPress url can also be manipulated to look exactly like that.
But still, as a precaution, I want to know if this move can still affect my ranking on search engines (not that there’s much to speak of) in a negative way.
Noob with SEO stuff. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
If you do complete replication of all URLs it should not be affected at all. For the URL’s that you can’t mimic but you know they are indexed – set up your server to fall back to the main page of your blog.