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Blog [Re]Launching
Hey Fellow 20SBers
Have any of you gone through a pretty serious Blog Re-launch?
I was blogging from a pretty limiting URL (entirely based on my year abroad...which is over) so I decided to launch my own hosted site (switching from blogger to self-hosted Wordpress). In the interim, I posted a bit on what I considered my Relaunch 1.5...but this week is the big week.
Anyone done it before? Any tips? Tricks? Don't-model-after-me blunders? I'd love to share victories and woes here!
Have any of you gone through a pretty serious Blog Re-launch?
I was blogging from a pretty limiting URL (entirely based on my year abroad...which is over) so I decided to launch my own hosted site (switching from blogger to self-hosted Wordpress). In the interim, I posted a bit on what I considered my Relaunch 1.5...but this week is the big week.
Anyone done it before? Any tips? Tricks? Don't-model-after-me blunders? I'd love to share victories and woes here!
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Permalink Reply by cooper on -
I have switched to WP self hosted from blogger, but it was a long time ago, and I didn't keep my old blog someone paid to take it over, so I transferred everything - all changes that have occurred with my blogging occur on the same blog for the most part.
Good luck though a self hosted WordPress blog is fun.
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Permalink Reply by floreta on -
i've been thinking about getting my own domain. There are a few ways to do this.
1) I could switch to wordpress
2) I could keep blogspot and have my domain name direct to my blogspot URL so that visitors can access both URLs
3) I could do a combination of both
What I am concerned about in switching to wordpress is that I would basically be blogging from a new site entirely, and people would have to update their links and rss feeds, etc.
In keeping with blogspot, nothing changes and my readers can access my feed as they have before.
The combination of both could give me an avenue of a "soft launch" as you have done while preparing people for my big launch to wordpress.. I think I might do that.
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Permalink Reply by Chase on -
If i had any advice, I'd say do it more intentionally than I did.
My soft launch feels chaotic and sloppy. I'm sure you'll do yours with more style and Flow.
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Permalink Reply by Writing to Reach You on -
I switched from blogger to WordPress quite a while ago. The biggest pain was getting my readers to follow me. I told everyone I'd moved through every means I could think of (though I tried not to be spammy about it) and still I had people find me weeks later, saying they had no idea I'd moved. Later I moved from wordpress.com to self-hosted WordPress, but my url and feed remained the same, so that was no trouble at all.
For me, all the trouble was worth it to be on a domain I was happy with. Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by Chase on
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thanks for the encouragement! I'm hoping I'll agree with you.
And I do fear having Readers chase me around will be my biggest obstacle. I too am keeping the Domain the same between 1.5 and the final resting place, but I still need to go get readers that still think I'm at blogger.
Thanks!
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