Hey Blog Coach, I’ve Moved My Blog – Now What?

By on January 1, 2007 in Blog Coach, RSS Feeds with 6 Comments

Is one of your projects for the new year moving your blog to a different software or platform? Maybe you’re focus has changed and you’ve decided to leave the old blog behind and start anew.

A simple post inviting your readers to your new blog is just one step, but there’s another you thing you can do to make it easy on your users.

Publish your new blog’s feed with FeedBurner, and utilize the BuzzBoost service.

We did this with Rush Nigut’s RushOnBusiness when we moved his old blog over to TypePad.

Another way to use this is on a static page. For the Iowa/IABC chapter, we used FeedBlendr to combine several IABC feeds, then burned that with FeedBurner and put it on the News Updates page.

By implementing this tool, anyone coming from a bookmark or a search result will see that you are still an active blogger – just in a different spot. Your headlines may compel them to continue forward.

If you’ve moved – or are contemplating a move – let us know what’s driving that thought process.

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  • Diane

    Great timing on this post! I am moving my blog, hopefully very soon. I’m also giving it a new title that is more descriptive of what my blog has turned into. I was wondering how to efficiently do this without confusing everyone and losing all of my readers. I love your suggestions, and will look into them.
    Oh, and I’m moving my blog from Blogger to WordPress because I am not happy with the changes made in Blogger 2. I want more control over the layout and HTML. I like WP, and will be using it on my own domain with my own hosting. I’m hoping this will also make my blog look more professional. Thanks again for the advice.

  • http://andybeard.eu/ Andy Beard

    Hi Mike
    From a WordPress perspective, you should always use a Feedburner Plugin such as http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/
    For the physical blog, I discovered today that Google after a while is actually honouring meta refresh
    http://andybeard.eu/2007/01/google-following-meta-redirects.html
    With some smart coding of the redirects you can retain visitors and search engine equity even if you can’t do a 301 redirect.

  • http://www.realoasis.net Richard Boyd

    Slightly off topic Mike (I hope that’s OK) but anyone using a hosted blog e.g. blog space, wordpress, et al should be moving them off super fast, onto their own hosting provider, in order to disassociate themselves from the spam movement, which will be hit this year (2007).

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    > Diane, I started to reply to your comment yesterday – and it turned into the next post. Does that help?
    > Andy, Brilliant! Thanks for sharing the link about how you moved your old blog from blogger and especially your discovery about Google and Meta redirects. Can I borrow your brain for about a week?
    >Richard, thanks for the heads up. Can you send me more info on that?

  • http://www.realoasis.net Richard Boyd

    Will do Mike. Oh BTW happy new year :)

  • http://andybeard.eu/ Andy Beard

    My brain is always available, but one note, I know nothing about Typepad ;)