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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!
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