Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom URLs. Unlike WordPress, Blogger cannot be installed in a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom URL to a blogspot domain.

Do you want to standstill with your Blogger website? Because there’s no more space for improvement? Probably, it’s about time for a game changer. So, in order to gain your website perfection, you may easily change your blog publishing platform, as an alternative, you might take a chance and import your Blogger content to Joomla. You may ask what good is it.

Firstly, Joomla is an open source CMS platform that allows to create advanced and scalable websites. It provides with the ability to manage professionally look like web projects that might be expanded with the various extensions. Also, you may adopt the authentic template that will suit your niche best. One more speak-for-itself advantage of Joomla is the thing you are the only owner of your website, when Blogger may delete your content any time with no reasons.

So, if you have made a choice to perform your Joomla migration, there are a few steps that will make your switch and site management flawless and smooth.

1. Make a Backup.
To get started with your Blogger to Joomla import, at first you should backup your current site data. It helps to exclude the data loss risk.

2. First, Install Joomla Website.
Install a new Joomla website. Also, you may activate some additional extensions. In the case of a blog running, it’s recommended to upload some of the following extensions: JComments, K2 (with this extension you don’t have to activate JComments), EasyBlog or something likes that.

3. Install a New Template.
The first thing you need to do is to download the new Joomla template you're willing to use for your site on your hard drive. Once you have your Joomla template downloaded on your computer, login to the administrative area of your Joomla website and upload the template through the Extension Manager (Extensions -> Extension Manager). The process is the same for templates, modules, plugins and components. Once the template is installed in your Joomla 3 application, you need to make it default for your website so your pages get the new design. First, you need to go to Extensions -> Template Manager. On this page, you will see a list of the installed templates available for your site and the administrative area. Locate the one you want to use on your site and click on the star icon next to it.

4. Get Blogger and Joomla Access Details on Hand

5. Migrate Blogger Content to Joomla
It’s available to try the automated data conversion.

6. Set up 301 URLs redirects from Blogger to Joomla.

7. Activate SEO Extension.

For remember, before launching your website data migration, analyze your traffic. It's recommended to proceed with this when the index is the lowest. And then when the transfer of your website is over, you should ask your website visitors to recover their passwords.