How to Combine Multiple WordPress Blogs Into One

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1. Josh Lipovetsky says:

   February 10, 2010 at 1:41 pm

   Paul, thanks for taking the time to make this video. Personally, I don’t have a need to combine any wordpress blogs, but who knows what the future holds? I haven’t really seen any videos like this on the internet, and thanks for going into detail about Permalinks! I hope you get a lot of traffic from this video!

   Thanks,
   Josh Lipovetsky.
   Josh Lipovetsky´s last blog ..Tomorrow is Today – Uplifting Miracles

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2. Bart says:

   February 10, 2010 at 10:32 pm

   Great job on the video Paul this will help in merging my blogs into one also.

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3. Taryn says:

   February 11, 2010 at 6:12 am

   Paul, thank you so much for this. It was incredibly helpful.

   When you use the WordPress export function, do you know if you have the option to export only your posts? I don’t necessarily need to import any of my pages into my new site.

   And, once you’ve completed the process and done your redirects, I’m assuming that you then need to keep your old sites for perpetuity (or at least for as long as you want to be a blogger!)?

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   • Paul Piotrowski says:

     February 11, 2010 at 12:19 pm

     @Taryn: When you export, it will export both Pages and Posts. However, I just thought of a little trick you can use. It might work. Go into WordPress and create a new user, called “BOB” for example. Go into each of the pages you DO NOT want to export and set the author for those pages as BOB. Leave all your posts as your own name. Then, during export when WordPress asks if you want to export ALL authors, just select yourself. That should export all your posts without any of the pages you assigned to BOB.

     As for the redirects, you’ll want to keep your old domains for as long as it takes you to update all your links. If you do the “Site Address Change” I talk about in the video with Google, the Google index should update itself in a few days or weeks. You can do a search through your most common traffic sources and see where the traffic is coming from.

     For example, if your highest traffic from Google Organic search comes from “abc keyword1″, then go to Google and search for “abc keyword1″. See if your old domain or your new domain show up for the search. If it’s still your old domain, then Google hasn’t updated the index yet. For a while, you may actually see BOTH domains showing up in the index.

     You can ditch the old domains when you no longer get traffic through them because you’ve updated all your links everywhere. Since a domain is cheap, investing $30/domain to keep them around for 3-5 years just in case there are old links out there is not a bad investment IMO.

     But if you have a domain expiring and it doesn’t get a lot of traffic anyways, then just ditch it. I would say that 180 days max is enough time for Google to update everything.

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4. Taryn says:

   February 12, 2010 at 2:21 am

   Thanks for the detailed answer, Paul – you’re a star!
   Taryn´s last blog ..How To Backup Your WordPress Site

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5. Elaine Johnston says:

   February 17, 2010 at 8:17 am

   Paul…you are wonderful!

   I’ve been thinking of combining two Word Press sites into one, and been wondering how to do it. Well, now I know thanks to you…thanks so much for taking the time to teach.

   I won’t have time to try it today, but will let you know how I make out when I do have the time. Am I allowed to give the web addresses of my sites? Still trying to learn all the rules and regulations for comments, forums, facebook, twitter, and whatever else is out there in the internet world.

   Yes, you can teach an “old lady” new tricks! Have a great day…..
   elaine

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6. Paul Piotrowski says:

   February 17, 2010 at 11:28 am

   @Elaine: Your name is linked to your Blog when you leave comments on Blogs so if people want to visit your site they just click on your picture or name beside the comment and they are linked to your site.

   Also, I’m experimenting with the CommentLuv plugin which automatically links to your latest Blog post at the bottom of your comments. Kind of a reward for posting a comment. A way to get more “deep links” to your site.

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7. Coz says:

   February 17, 2010 at 5:46 pm

   great job with the video Paul. I have a couple of WordPress blogs and have been wondering about this

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