Come and get me

Perhaps the worst thing about moving my blog to a new system is the fact that most people have lost me. Or I’ve lost them, or something.

Because stupid Netfirms forced me to use a new URL, the addresses of all my posts have changed, as have the RSS feeds. So people who have bookmarked my posts or look them up in Google go to the old blog, and those who signed up via RSS think I haven’t posted in two weeks.

The worst part of it is that Blogger and stupid Netfirms simply will not talk any more. Ever. I cannot publish a message on my old blog saying that I’ve moved. (I may be able to hack into it manually and write something.)

I’ve tried all the supposedly simply ways of redirecting traffic (.htaccess, redirect scripts) but I simply can’t seem to make them work. So I’m down to my last card: writing manual redirects for each post and pasting them into the HTML files for all 50-odd posts. Best I can do.

I’m also having an odd problem with Technorati, which won’t acknowledge my pings. Other services do - if you search for “hrrrmmm” from yesterday’s post, you’ll find me via http://blogsearch.blogger.com/ or http://blogsearch.google.com/ or http://www.icerocket.com/ you’ll find it, but not on Technorati (the important one.) It’s in my WP update services list, and I’ve pinged it manually, but they haven’t visited in 42 days. I’ve even tried deleting it from my claimed blogs and re-adding it.

OK, enough complaining. Here’s my plea:

Please change your bookmarks and RSS links!

- Here’s the best address for the blog (it does not have index.html at the end):
http://www.gorbould.com/blog/

- The new RSS feed address is here:
http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/feed/

- And you can get a feed of the blog comments here:
http://www.gorbould.com/blog/index.php/comments/feed

Thanks.

Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 10-12-2006 | 12:10 PM
Posted in: Blogging