Comments on: Client Success Story: The Mom-Tini Lounge

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:24:35 +0000

@Chris - There are plugins and other methods to get video to “play nice.” The layout issue you’re describing might have been caused by placing something too wide for a column. Like that video!

By: Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:44:25 +0000

Michael, we just installed a WordPress blog on our domain and two things 1) it was a pain to figure out how to add video (learned to bypass the editor,) and 2) the WordPress blog is currently going crazy! It split into two columns and is whacked! I’m worrying I’m going to have to reinstall it, so I may be enlisting in your help. Other than that, it’s been very easy to post, and we’re now trying to figure out how to use the add-ins and to try to customize it!
thanks,
Chris

By: Karen JL

Karen JL — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:22:05 +0000

Thanks! Tricky to sort through all those plug-ins sometimes.

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:02:12 +0000

@Karen - The plugin I use is called Sig2feed.

By: Karen JL

Karen JL — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:55:33 +0000

She made the right decision! If you’re serious about blogging or building a business with it, you really should go self-hosted. But Wordpress.com is a great place to get your feet wet (for newbies). Just don’t stay there too long.

I just left my old .com blog up there with a single post directing folks to my new blog. Seemed to work OK. Now I’ve made it invisible to the search engines then I will eventually delete it.

A bit off topic Michael…what plug-in are you using to get the copyright notice at the bottom of your feed? I found 3 possible ones: Simple feed, Copyfeed and Rss footer.

Thanks!

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:00:46 +0000

@Becky - Great questions! Subscribers were notified of the change in advance. I don’t have the exact numbers. The original blog had been in existence since March of 2007 and its home page had acquired a PageRank of 3. The new blog went live in February of 2008. Its home page currently has no PageRank.

This is one of the pitfalls of starting on a service like WordPress.com. There is no way to do the kind of redirect necessary to retain PageRank when you leave the service. Getting into the right situation for long-term PageRank strength is far more important than hobbling the blog in order to retain the weak PageRank it had at WordPress.com.

By: Becky Carroll

Becky Carroll — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:18:13 +0000

Great success story, Michael! Question - what happened to her Technorati rankings, her Google page rank, and her subscribers when she moved? I have heard that most things reset to zero when you move from wp.com to wp.org.