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How to Prepare Your Blog for Self-hosted WordPress

April 7, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks doing a lot of research on this topic for a couple reasons, not the least of which are: 1. An established blog needs to keep its google 'juice' and page rank. 2. Us bloggers, like to keep our readers, not confuse them with new addresses and redirects and warning pages. 3. We also like to keep our FEED readers/ subscribers. 4. We also like to have a professional top level domain (myblog.com or myblog.net) For Blogger: The ONLY way, and I stress - only - way to keep your google ranking with a move away from wordpress is to publish to a "custom domain" … [Read more...]

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Troubleshooting, anyone? Giveaway

January 26, 2009

This contest is closed!! I am introducing a new product at DSW! And giving away an hour of troubleshooting on your self-hosted wordpress blog! A lot of the emails that I receive from this site are of this variety: * Help! My sidebar has slid down beneath the main column! * Help! I've lost a post! * Help! I can't login to my wordpress blog! I've received really positive feedback when I manage to solve these problems for y'all! "Holy cow -- whatever you did, I can now log in to my WP admin! Yippeeeeee! You ARE a genius..." "Thank you for getting on top of this so quickly!" "Woot woot... I … [Read more...]

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