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Bye Bye Google Blogger

Shaos February 03, 2010 google, opensource 2 Comments

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I’m on WordPress now and almost all links are saved :)

Import from Blogger was perfect!

Permalinks with custom structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html correctly replicate Blogger’s URLs

I installed plugin “Smart 404″ to handle broken URLs to labels – it’s working fine

But now archive URLs are different and RSS feed URLs are different – it is minor problem

No more FTP in Blogger

Shaos February 02, 2010 google, internet 1 Comment

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Google has decided to drop FTP support in Blogger since March this year. So what should I do?

  1. to switch to something.blogspot.com and lose all my search engines entrances?
  2. to switch to Blogger’s “custom domain” (probably shaos.net) and again lose all my search engines entrances?
  3. to say good-bye to Google Blogger and convert my blog to something else in the same place (shaos.net/blog) and save all my search engines entrances?

P.S. I’m glad to be part of “unique” 1/200 subset of Blogger users who was using FTP, but it’s just too sad…

P.P.S. It looks like more political than technical decision – they simply … Continue Reading