Don't Abandon Blogger Blog...

When you switch to another blog platform, like WordPress be careful not to delete your blog as the url will then be grabbed by a sporn site, especially if you had lots of traffic. You will be quite embarrased when your loyal following stops by for a visit.

Keep the old blogger site and advise people that you are no longer there and create a link to your new location.

You may also want to use it as an archive storage site.

I would start a NEW, fresh blog at wordpress.com and use Blogger as storage, creating links at wordpress to your old posts on Blogger.

I recently transferred a blog to wordpress.com and it worked very well. All posts and pictures transferred without nary a hitch. And the original blogspot blogger blog stayed intact. Remember to go to wordpress.com, if you want a FREE blog, not wordpress.org.
You will not be able to use google adsense over there.

Don't forget that when you write your blog you should SAVE each post with pictures (or address/name/file location in your harddrive). Make a file with documents of each blog post, in case your blog should ever be lost. The info is not floating in space somewhere, it is actually located in a large computer and that computer (server) could loose power, the owners of the storage space could delete it for some reason or it could be taken over by terrorists (just a little humor).


Your other option is to buy a domain name and get a hosting package and have the domain name point to your Blogger site (~$150/year). You can then remove any "I Power Blogger" advertising and disable the Navbar without violation.

If you want a truly anonymous site you must get an anonymous registration from godaddy hosting service. Network solutions will always publish the registrants name but you can get your address and contact info privatized for a yearly fee (~$12). Otherwise, people will find out your full name and where you live just by putting your url into the "whois" search.

Once you buy a hosting package, it cannot be switched over to an anonymous agent. At least it can't at network solutions. But I don't think their helpdesk people understood my question.

If you have any questions I will post them in a FAQ sidebar without any personal identification. Just put "sidebar this" in your comment.

I know it's work, but you love it, don't you?

Happy blogging!