Q1: Do you have two or more blogs on Blogger and need to merge them into a single blog ?
Q2: Are you looking for a more simple option to backup all your blogger blogs including comments ?
Q3: Do you need to migrate your blog from Blogger to WordPress or another blogging platform ?
Q4: Do you want to move certain stories from your current blog into a new blog ?
If the answer to any of these question is yes, here’s something for you.
Blogger has added an Import / Export feature in Blogger that lets you backup your blogger blogs to the local hard drive as an XML file.
The XML file will have all the articles that you have written plus the reader comments. Now WordPress too has an Import Blogger feature but it ignores the comments so this latest Blogger feature will prove very useful.
To export your blogger blog, go to http://draft.blogger.com, login with your Google Account and use the Export link from the Settings | Basic tab. This would just save your blog to a text file, the blog would still remain on Blogger as it is. Full instructions here.
If you chose to import this XML file into a new (or existing) Blogger blog, the new posts remain unpublished by default though you can also republish them as soon as Blogger is done importing the file.
Related: Making That Shift from Blogger to WordPress
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/export-blogger-blogs-merge-multiple-blogs/3714/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
what will happen to my existing traffic, RSS feeds, links etc?
Written by piyush k on 06.27.08
Nice option but after exporting content from another blogs to our main blog , will not this will hurt to our page ranks and serps .
Written by Digital I.T Blog on 06.27.08
This should be helpful
Written by Shiva on 06.27.08
This is exact What I was looking for. I am maintaining 3 education blogs apart from Aboutonlinetips. I want to merge all three into one.I will try now and let u know.
–Chris
Written by AboutOnlineTips on 06.27.08
WOW.!!! Google Rocks!! Without any glitch it has successfully imported my other 2 blogs into main blog.Even the dates has not been updated.
5 stars to Google.
–Chris
Written by AboutOnlineTips on 06.27.08
But this will create the duplicate copy of your articles on two blogs.Is it permissible. Will it violate googles, TOS
Written by AboutOnlineTips on 06.27.08
Its very good… because i want to merge my blog to one ID.
Written by amit on 06.27.08
amazing trick dude :D
Thanks …
Written by mayur on 06.27.08
I seems as if the export feature is for blogspot.com blogs only.
Could I export my Blogger blog (with non-blogspot URL) to Wordpress using the same URL?
Thanks for your always-terrific posts.
Written by Terry Rayburn on 06.27.08
If you’re worried about Google Juice, migrating posts from one blog to another is not recommended.
These options are more for people who want to backup blogs or who blog at different places and want to merge everything.
Terry - when you export from Blogger to WordPress, the URLs will change.
Written by Amit Agarwal on 06.27.08
Amit if we exported some of our pots to another blog, then if google treats them as copy pasted from another.So it will have an adverse effect on our blogs.Could you please clearify it.
Written by Kishore on 06.27.08
I shifted a few blogs to merge them with my main one. I guess if you delete the older blogs then it should not cause any google TOS violation. Isn’t that right?
Written by Dr.Vishaal Bhat on 06.28.08
I have always seen ideas and suggestions for shifting the blog from blogger to wordpress .. I want to know if somebody can guide how to shift a wordpress blog to blogger…
Written by Tech Search Maniac on 06.28.08
The importer on WordPress now supports comment importing as well. Unfortunately it does change the urls as it imports, but it does work.
Written by Paul OFlaherty on 06.29.08
I see more features from blogger, not export function, such as rating, comment form, webmaster tool and editor, great news
Written by Tinh on 06.30.08
I am having a hard time opening my blogspot page. I have no problems with log in, but I can’t view new posts. I tried to open your website, digital inspiration.blogspot.com. I can’t. What’s the problem with blogger? I am in Thailand right now. I tried with many computers, but I still can’t open blogspot websites. Please advice.
Written by P.J.Joseph on 06.30.08
Thanks, Amit…
Took me a second to merge my two blogs… Really reallu usefull trick.
Written by Dalia on 11.23.08
I imported my two blogs into one , a fer months ago.
This is new option ?!
Written by Ivan on 12.11.08
I accidentally imported my posts twice (Archive Widget)!!!!! I cannot figure out for the life of me how to export one of the copies. I’ve worked so hard at customizing my blog so I don’t want to delete everything.
Does anyone know a solution? Despite the ‘Archive’ widget html being exactly the same on the original blog it still shows double.
Written by Jena on 01.10.09