Dropping The Ball & Moving Out?
First I have to apologize for dropping the ball. Last week on the Outdoor Bloggers Summit blog, Kristine issued a challenge entitled Write About The Good. I committed to writing a post for the challenge.
From the OBS – “… encouraging all bloggers to find one local, grassroots program that is supported by people who hunt or fish and write about that program on your blog.”
I couldn’t have committed to something at a worse time. To be downright honest – mountaintop removal has taken over my life at the moment. I’m reading the book Coal River, I’m three quarters of the way through the dissertation mentioned in the last post, and I have just started reading the FPEIS (Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement) for MTR.
I do still plan to write a post concerning area Hunters Helping The Hungry. But I’m just going to miss the challenge week by a bit. In the meantime please go to the OBS blog and check out posts generated by its members for the challenge.
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The second thing – I may be moving out of Blogger. The past week has been a nightmare on this blog as far as things crashing or just going insane. Before I joined the battle to stop MTR this blog was nothing more than a hobby. It wasn’t a big deal before but now I use the blog as a tool as well as being a hobby.
I think the problems last week just highlighted my reason for wanting to move the blog. This blog is not mine – it belongs to Blogspot and as such is subject to issues with Blogger. I’ve been wanting to put the blog on it’s own domain for a while but haven’t for a few reasons. There are quite a few blogs linking here, the blog has a Google pagerank of 3, and Technorati authority at 250.
You might think – So what? – That is what I thought to. I’m not trying to sale anything here so all the ranking counts for squat in the big picture. Except that now I have taken on Ol’ King Coal, all of the sudden the ranking really matters to me. People that come here reading a post about ginseng are exposed to MTR. Awareness is the key.
Right now I’m stuck in the middle of trying to make the decision. To move or not to move? That is the question.
CAn you put in a redirect, at least for a while? That way you would still have the technorati links et al, but you’d also have more liberty.
I really recommend WordPress. I write one of our company blogs and two of my personal blogs on it. Plus, Steve, who writes our Blogging Master class posts, knows a lot about it, and I’m sure would quote you a reasonable rate if you needed help.
I say definitely move. I want to get the OBS blog off Blogger as well, but things have just kept getting in the way.
You really should move Denny. Check out this site: http://www.filination.com/tech/2007/10/10/moving-from-blogger-blogspot-to-wordpress-the-right-way-301-redirect/
and more importantly this post:
http://www.techcounter.com/wordpress/301-permanent-redirect-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress/
This covers how to do a 301 redirect as mountain said, but specific for your situation. It looks like it will be a bit of work, but in the end you should end up keeping your rankings, etc…
I’m not exactly a web guru, but willing to help ya any way I can with changing.