You are never too old to make mistakes. Never too young to start over.
I had been watching an indian blogger Shankar Ganesh who covered a lot of ground in a very short period of time. A lot of his success in gaining a good link popularity seems to come with his highly socialized manner and lots of friends, but you can never discredit the good work he has done. After the launch of his site, the first PR update from Google gave him a very healthy rank of 5. Then for a while I stopped reading his blog. Just yesterday, I stumbled upon ways to use your pendrive and found that it was the same blogger, who stopped publishing at his personal blog and instead started a brand new blog of Tech Tips.
It was clear that the young fellow did not planned his move perfectly. Starting a brand new blog while relinquishing the older one is not always a mistake. Perhaps it could be good decision , had Shankar taken his time to use the PR juice he has already generated by his personal blog. Currently his tech tips blog is sitting at a PR of 0, though I am sure he has decent traffic, as he is using the same rss feed url.
I would suggest Shankar to migrate all of his tech related posts to his new blog. Put a 301 redirection on the previous blog. That will repair some of the damage. Given that he has a good domain name, I believe he would succeed in this one just like he did in his personal blogging endeavor.
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1 SEO UK // Mar 14, 2008 at 8:14 am
Some good tips for anybody considering moving their blog to a new domain. However, I’d suggest not taking the Toolbar PR seriously. It bears no relation upon either traffic or search engine rankings, and has become pretty much redundant.
Great post, thanks.
2 John Doe // Mar 14, 2008 at 2:49 pm
@SEO UK,
totally agree with that. Google PR is not something to be obsessed with, though its a good indication of your link popularity at a glance.
3 Shankar Ganesh // Mar 15, 2008 at 10:07 am
Hey there,
I really want to thank you for your kind and timely advice.
I didn’t want to import posts and go around a mess, but I think I must do it now.
A few people talked about me about this, but I really didn’t realise the importance of doing an import and redirection.
Thanks for your words, they were like an eye opener
and I might be importing stuff soon.
4 Adam Hyman // Mar 27, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Wow, I’ve made a lot of those same blogging mistakes in the past.
Now I’m trying to learn as much as I can before starting another blog!
Hopefully the next time I’ll get it right!
5 pradeep // May 16, 2008 at 6:18 am
Thanks for the post. I was planning to host my own blog with some of the free blogs hosting services like blogger or wordpress. But according to you the best way is to start with a blog on new domain altogether. Great tip!
6 Nabeel // May 17, 2008 at 4:53 am
I agree with you
Moving to a brand new website is like moving to a brand new home where nobody know you there for a while
Thanks
7 Andrew Reynolds // May 18, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Thanks for sharing! This could help us to realize some of the mistakes in blogging. and eventually to correct those mistakes.
8 boris // May 19, 2008 at 2:20 pm
There is so much to learn and rules change quickly
9 Vintage Naturists // May 21, 2008 at 2:08 am
Thanks for the suggestion. This blogger healthy page rank of 5 after the first update is a great PR jump for the first page rank update.
10 manhattan limo // May 29, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Thank’s for all taht you said. From now on I will do my best so I won’t have a lot of mistakes.
11 calabria real estate // May 30, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Thank you so much for your awesome advice! That helps me a lot because I had a lot mistakes before.
12 Skankity Spence // Jun 14, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I’ll be sure to note this piece of advice, although I don’t think I’m switching domains any time soon.
13 Tasarim // Jul 10, 2008 at 9:44 am
google fixed 301 rediraction bug isn’t it ?
14 Jasons Custom Blinds // Jul 13, 2008 at 4:44 am
Most people end up doing the same thing with their blog. they get started a little blindly and then find their way once they are deep in it.
15 Webkinz World // Aug 4, 2008 at 2:09 pm
A 301 redirect would be a perfect idea. No sense in wasting all that PR and link juice.
16 Brian // Aug 5, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Thanks for the great info on your blog. Also checked the link to killertechtips.
Thanks again
17 teo // Sep 10, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Same for me. I had a PR 3 blog and moved to other site, now the PR dropped and i regret it. Now i know where i had mistaken and i will take your piece of advice next time! Thanks
18 Amber | funzest // Oct 19, 2008 at 7:48 am
i came across your post about WP-polls. have tried this plugin as per your advice but i had a small problem.
The Poll bar width is too much when you view results
I like to know how to fix this. i am using in posts by adding [.poll id =1]
Thanks in advance.
19 Online Cash Kid // Nov 20, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Agreed, most people put too much consideration into Google Pagerank. All hail the might wrath of google.
20 Rosetta // Jun 14, 2010 at 12:25 am
Friends, thank you for this article, has given me great inspiration, great! Back to the light of your way to try!
21 Mike // Jun 14, 2010 at 4:24 am
I also still want to know how to fix this. i am using in posts by adding [.poll id =1]
Many Thanks
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