Looking to move from Blogger? BlogHarbor provides you with the ability to import entries from your Blogger-based weblog. Follow these steps to import your Blogger articles, entries, and comments.

Step 1:  Export from Blogger

  1. Log into Blogger and select the blog you wish to export
  2. Select the Settings tab
  3. Select the Formatting tab
  4. Change Show value to 999 Days
  5. Change the Timestamp Format to mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss xx
  6. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page
  7. Select the Template tab
  8. Select all the template text and press Delete (on your keyboard)
  9. Copy the template from below (including the dashed lines) and paste it into the template window
  10. Click the Preview button
  11. When the new browser window appears, select the View Source option appropriate for your browser
  12. At the top of the source document, delete all lines above the intitial AUTHOR line
  13. At the bottom of the source document, delete all lines below and including the </body> tag
  14. Save the file as import.txt
  15. In the blogger window, click the Cancel button
  16. Select the Formatting tab
  17. Change the Show value to its original value
  18. Change the Timestamp Format back to its original value
  19. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page

Here is the template:

<Blogger>
AUTHOR: <$BlogItemAuthor$>
DATE: <$BlogItemDateTime$>
TITLE: <PostSubject><$BlogItemSubject$></PostSubject>
PRIMARY CATEGORY:
STATUS: Publish
ALLOW COMMENTS: 1
ALLOW PINGS: 1
CONVERT BREAKS: 0
-----
BODY:
<$BlogItemBody$>
-----


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</blogger>

Step 2:  Editing Your Import File

At this point, you are ready to do the import. However, if you are interested in categorizing your posts or including the comments from your old blog, you must edit the import file.

Categories
To categorize the posts, simply type the category after the PRIMARY CATEGORY:  line for each post. Categories can be automatically created during the import, but that also means that any typos will also be created. It is possible to categorize the posts after they are imported so this is optional.

Comments
If you want to include comments, then you need to understand how the import format works. The eight dashes following the content of each post mark the end of the post. To add a comment to the file, insert the following immediately below the post content and above the eight dashes:

-----
COMMENT:
AUTHOR:
EMAIL:
URL:
DATE: mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss
(comment)
-----

Now complete the AUTHOR, EMAIL (optional), URL (optional) and DATE lines. Finally, replace the "(comment)" line with the actual comment text. Multiple comments for a single post are added in the same manner — always directly above the eight dashes.

Step 3:  Importing into Your BlogHarbor Weblog

  1. Login to Manage Your Blog
  2. Click the Settings tab in the Blog Admin Control Panel
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the Import/Export Blog section
  4. Click the Browse button to search for the import file (import.txt) to be uploaded
  5. Choose a default category
  6. Check the box labeled Create categories referenced in import file to choose whether categories should be automatically created
  7. Click the Preview Entries button to begin the import process