TheWayoftheWeb

Social media marketing, digital publishing, PR, communities and engagement
  • rss
  • Home
  • About Dan Thornton
  • My Marketing role
  • Marketing books and groups
  • Marketing Measurement Tools

Time for some housekeeping…

Dan Thornton | July 18, 2008

I’ve been trying to manually import the remaining content from my old Blogger blog, but it’s been slow going. So there may be a little less posting while I finally finish the job.

Plus I also need to upgrade my blogs to the new Wordpress 2.6. I hesitated a little due the problems outlined hear, but if you’re having problems logging in, apparently clearing your cookies will solve it.

I’m willing to take the risk to be able to post from anywhere and hopefully increase my output once more…

Comments
1 Comment »
Categories
Blogging
Tags
blog, housekeeping, wordpress
Comments rss Comments rss
Trackback Trackback

New Wordpress 2.6 arrives - one month ahead of schedule…

Dan Thornton | July 15, 2008

I know all the tech news type blogs will have covered this in-depth, but the new version of Wordpress, 2.6 ‘Tyner’ has arrived one month ahead of schedule and looks awesome.

Post from anywhere is going to be incredibly useful, particularly in a blogosphere still worrying that microblogging is quicker and easier.  The wiki tracking of edits could be really helpful on my group blog over at www.140char.com, meaning that group posts could now be properly collaborative. Plus little things like wordcounts and image captions that make a big difference.

Having spent a lot of time on Blogger, I’m so glad I made the switch, even if it meant sacrificing my Google Page Rank for while!

Comments
No Comments »
Categories
Blogging, wordpress
Tags
2.6, available, posting, released, tyner, wiki editing, wordpress
Comments rss Comments rss
Trackback Trackback

Moving from Blogger to Wordpress - the saga continues

Dan Thornton | June 7, 2008

Once more I’ve learned a lesson about doing the appropriate research before jumping into something! My move from Blogger to Wordpress ran into problems when I tried the feature to ‘auto-import from blogger’ feature, due to the fact I’m with Godaddy hosting. So I had to export from blogger, import into a Wordpress.com blog, then export from there and import into my hosted Wordpress blog! And even then 6 months of my blog somehow disappeared, and are still being re-added when I have time.

But on top of that I forgot to put a proper redirect for people visiting my old blog, assuming that a post telling them I’d moved, and the lack of new content would see my old blog gently slip under the waves of the Google search…Wrong!

Not only did my old blog continue to rank higher than this one (Google PR4), and still attract visitors, but if they visited an individual post, there was no indication I’d moved. And I suspect all that duplicate content is why this blog still has a Page Rank of 0. Google no like duplicate content.

Tonight, I finally sorted it out, thanks to the excellent ‘How to redirect Blogger Beta to Wordpress instructions here. So now my old blog will finally be removed from Google, visitors are automatically redirected, there’s a direct redirect to individual posts where the importing actually worked, and there’s even a public information notice up explaining!

I get there in the end!

Like what you’re reading? Why not subscribe to my RSS feed and never miss a post?

Comments
No Comments »
Categories
Blogging
Tags
blogger, Blogging, cache, godaddy, google, importing, migrating, moving, page rank, redirect, removing, wordpress
Comments rss Comments rss
Trackback Trackback

Importing from Blogger to Wordpress with Godaddy hosting

Dan Thornton | May 26, 2008

There’s going to be some interruption to posting as I manually import about 6 months of blog posts that appear to have gone missing during my transfer from Blogger to Wordpress.

The original import failed completely, until I spotted other users had problems importing - specifically when they are hosted by Godaddy. The easy way around this is to export, and then import to a hosted Wordpress.com blog, and then import it from there to your hosted blog.

Worked fine for me until the import failed due to a rogue character somewhere that I just can’t find.

So now it’s Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for a while, whilst also trying to post some new stuff every so often, and rebuild by Page Rank and link equity…Who would ever transfer blogs!

Comments
2 Comments »
Categories
Blogging
Tags
blogger, Blogging, blogspot, export, godaddy, hosted, import, page rank, wordpress
Comments rss Comments rss
Trackback Trackback

« Previous Entries

Popular Posts

  • Has Microsoft made a major marketing mistake?
  • Breaking the habit of broadcast media
  • About Dan Thornton
  • Absolute Radio - the new name of Virgin Radio
  • Is Digg's day done?

Tags

140char advertising blog blogger Blogging blogs business community community marketing dave cushman david cushman digg digital disposable media ditto facebook faster future free friendfeed future google inspiration marketing measurement media mp3 music myspace news online rss social social media social media marketing social networking social networks strategy success the long tail twitter video web 2.0 wikipedia wordpress youtube

On Twitter

    Archives

    • January 2009 (8)
    • December 2008 (33)
    • November 2008 (23)
    • October 2008 (28)
    • September 2008 (23)
    • August 2008 (24)
    • July 2008 (22)
    • June 2008 (19)
    • May 2008 (16)
    • April 2008 (18)
    • March 2008 (11)
    • February 2008 (17)
    • January 2008 (2)
    • October 2007 (12)
    • September 2007 (16)
    • August 2007 (10)
    • July 2007 (15)
    • June 2007 (14)
    • May 2007 (20)
    • April 2007 (18)
    • March 2007 (17)
    • February 2007 (29)
    • January 2007 (24)
    • December 2006 (13)
    • November 2006 (13)
    • October 2006 (15)

    Events/Projects

    • MeasurementCamp
    • Social Media Mafia

    The Blogroll

    • A Shel of Myself
    • Currybetdotnet
    • Faster Future
    • Gaping Void
    • Green Tea Ice Cream
    • Howard Owens
    • Jaffe Juice
    • Jonathan MacDonald
    • Journalism Iconoclact
    • KDPaine’s PR Measurement Blog
    • Nick Burcher
    • Occam’s Razor Web Analytics blog
    • Only Dead Fish
    • Seth Godin
    • Teaching Online Journalism
    • The Herd
    • The Obvious?
    • Web Strategy
    • Wikinomics

    Rankings

    Wikio - Top Blogs - Technology Featured in Alltop

    Books I recommend

    Blog Directories

    Blog Flux Directory Add to Technorati Favorites

    Top Spots Links

    Blog Directory

    Blogging Fusion Blog Directory

    rss Comments rss valid xhtml 1.1 design by jide powered by Wordpress get firefox