DISQUS

Moses · 1 year ago

Morning Blog Bloke,

I've been reading your articles for a little while now and am really enjoying your style and knowledge of all things blog-shaped.

I made the big switch over to self-hosted Wordpress 6 weeks ago having been inspired by the first post in this series. One thing that's eluded me however is how to get google to re-index my domain.

I've got a sitemap working and listed it with google webmasters, there's 150 incoming links to my homepage, I've added the site to google, and installed Headspace2 for extra juice..

Any advice would be very much appreciated and I look forward to the next episode in this series.

BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

Google will eventually get around to it but if you're impatient (like me) then I would install the plugins "Google XML Sitemaps" and "XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress". I'll talk more about this later in the series.

Then resubmit your url to Google again.

Moses · 1 year ago

Thanks for that Blokester,
I am also impatient, and submitted the xml sitemap about 3 weeks ago. Well guess they'll get there eventually...

It just seems strange that they're taking so damn long. When I check Google Webmasters it says that googlebot is crawling me and my sitemap daily. There's a few broken historical links (30 odd), but they're fixed now and everything else shows up fine there.

I'm about to migrate a mate's website to wordpress as well (http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/), and want to try and avoid any pagerank loss in the move. Do you reckon I suffered the drop to 0 due to switching to a domain at the same time as I changed to wordpress? Might have been better changing to a google hosted domain for a month and let it all update first then swap across?

Cheers,
Moses.

BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

Absolutely. A new domain will take longer to generate pagerank.

Miss Moneypenny · 1 year ago

Hi Bloke!

Sounds like an ad for a great As Seen On TV Infomercial....

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BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

I like your style Miss Moneypenny, and speaking of names ... you can call me James. ;-)

Dennis Edell · 1 year ago

Awesome stuff my man, definitely looking forward to part 3!

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BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

Good to have you back Dennis. Part 3 is in the works as we speak.

Web Marketing · 1 year ago

First time coming across this blog, so it looks like your experiment is working:) I'm looking forward to part 3 as well.

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BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

Thanks for dropping by. Part 3 is almost finished.

meleah rebeccah · 1 year ago

Good For You. I have a hard time keeping up with my blog traffic and stats.

BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

Thanks Mealah. If it's that hard keeping up with your traffic stats then kudos are in order for you!

hariman · 1 year ago

Good traffic. Web traffic is really necessary for web popularity. The more traffic the more worthy

Tica Macha (Teri) · 1 year ago

Gobble, Gobble, Happy Turkey Day!
Glad you are spending less time at the computer and more time doing something FUN with family, I hope.

Cory · 1 year ago

I've noticed the same phenomenon bloke. I'll take 3-4 days off and I see a spike in my feed subscribers. This has yet to fail. Coincidence? Doesn't seem to be.

BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

I don't believe in coincidence ;-)

Gourmet Dog Treats · 1 year ago

SEO is such a weird topic. Someone can talk about it like it is a science and others can talk it up like feng shui.

I really appreciate you stating that you are not an SEO expert before providing your advice. I find too often that people consider themselves experts on the topic.

I think you are just being modest though your blog has a PR of 5. That doesn't happen by accident.

Keep up the experiment. I cannot wait until part 3.

PS wordpress is nice. DotnetBlogEngine is my preference.

Emily.

BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

In this day age there's no shortage of "experts", "coaches" and "gurus" on the web. ;-) Last year before I moved to a new domain on wordpress I was a PR 7.

Tracy · 1 year ago

Amazing traffic results!! You are absolutely right about Wordpress blowing Blogger right out of the water. Even without any seo plugins my WP based blogs have done very well, the Google spiders just seem to love the code it is written in.

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BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

There is something about the way Wordpress is designed that gives it an advantage. Because the Blogger code is all in one template it is a little different than regular CSS and HTML like Wordpress. Search engines also love PHP.

Thanks for dropping by Tracy.

Kashmiri Nomad · 1 year ago

Hello Blog Bloke

I recently came across your site and was instantly hooked. I currently own a politics/international relations blog on Blogger which I started in October 2005.

I've been thinking about moving from Blogger since upgrading to the widgets template and loosing all my comments because Haloscan/JS-kit will not work with the new template.

I found your blog when I searched for tips on migrating from Blogger to Wordpress. Since that day I have been hooked but the thought of leaving everything that has become so familiar to me at Blogger daunts me.

I am also not looking forward to all the effort that migrating to Wordpress entails. Now I am stuck as I do not how to proceed. Should I stay with Blogger or should I move to Wordpress ? Your thoughts on the matter would be much appreciated.

BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

Hi Kashmiri.

Well first of all you should read http://www.blogbloke.com/migrating-redirecting-... and http://www.blogbloke.com/moving-wordpress-blogger/

My best recommendation is if you can afford $50 a year for blog hosting then you will definitely be better off using Wordpress. Especially when writing a professional blog.

Thanks for your comments.

kelly · 1 year ago

I guess I am a little luckier in a sense cos before I realised that I was on first 5 pages (Google) for "girly wordpress", I wasn't using any SEO "tips" at all (at one time Feedjit widget revealed I was getting a lot of visits via Google for "girly wordpress"). I am not using SEO much although sometimes I do download tools and try them out. I guess I need to be more focused.

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Gini · 1 year ago

Wow, 1 week. I've increased my traffic 400% over the past 3 months and I thought that was awesome...

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BLOGBloke · 1 year ago

After 2 months my traffic is now up between 700% and 1,000% percent! I must say I am very pleased and all without hardly writing a thing. As I watch my traffic go up I'm hard pressed to want to write anything at all these days. I'm starting to get lazy and I may have to retire the keyboard if this keeps up. ;-)

thebigwhatadventure · 1 year ago

it is very attractive opportunity, I will see it and waiting for the next part

balifinder@bali indonesia trav · 12 months ago

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ömine · 12 months ago

Thank you for this information.