How to Import and Export Your Blog in Blogger

How long you have been blogging? It doesn't matter if you are a fresh blogger with few posts or got 1000s of posts right now. You publish posts after going through enormous facts and information or put up your whole life experiences on it. What is common there is you would like to share it with all others. Further you may create or craft images for your posts and embed valuable multimedia content to make your blog a valuable resource for your readers. But what if you lose all your content published on your blog in a sudden?

Did you ever think about that? Your blog is online and there could be variety of reasons you could lose your content. May be purposely, group of people may report you as a spammer and you end up with no access to your blog. Or accidently your blog may get deleted and it cannot be undone. Or there could be lot of unpredictable reasons on the web that cause your blog get disappeared. We can't predict what threats there could be and what could be happened in next moment. So rather than finding solutions after a situation, prevention would be even more better.

Due to these security reasons, Blogger let you save your blog content in a safe place. Literally say, it's a back up. You can easily back up your content on your hard drive with a single click and simply import your blog content again if you got any critical situation. Or if you wanna move your content to another blog, this would be really helpful too.

Export Your Blog

All your blog content and corresponding Blogger comment form comments will be saved or exported here.

i. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

ii. Click on your Blog Title.

iii. Navigate to Settings.

iv. Jump to Other tab below.

v. Click on Export blog link under the Blog tools heading.

vi. Now click on Download Blog button in the pop up box. It will download your blog content and related comments for you stored in a XML file (.xml). Keep it in a safe place.

vii. Close the pop up.

Import Your Blog

Here you can easily import all your saved content to your Blogger blog.

i. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

ii. Click on your Blog Title.

iii. Navigate to Settings.

iv. Jump to Other tab below.

v. Click on Import blog link under the Blog tools heading.

vi. Click on Choose File button on the pop up and click open after selecting your previously saved/exported blog content XML file (.xml).

vii. Fill out the word verification beneath and check Automatically publish all imported posts option if you want to publish your imported posts automatically, right after importing them. Else after importing, your posts may remain unpublished until you navigate to your Blogger dashboard and publish each of them manually.

viii. Now click on Import Blog button to import your blog content with corresponding post comments.

Note: If you importing content to a existing blog, then each of your imported posts will sorted by date and added to the particular places of your blog.

ix. Close the pop up.


Enjoy :-)