Updated Blog Software – and Behind the scenes

Daniel — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:59:06 +0000

So it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged on this blog. I have a few other which have taken my attention. I have been wanting to change this from evoblog to WordPress for some time. Since I left Evo they stopped working on all software so I wanted something maintined and upgraded regularly. The issue? I had pages indexed in Google already, so I went through and created 301 redirects for almost every item that was in Google except the Gallery. Now there are several posts in here that don’t make sense since the video or image links have been broken with the import. (sorry)

So what is involved with doing the 301′s and why would anyone want to do them? Basic SEO 101, if you have a page in Google, don’t let Google lose site of it (unless you want it gone). So you tell the server that a specific page has been 301′d to the new url. 301′s tell Google this is a permanent move, 302′s say it’s just temporary. So if you have htaccess on your maching you can simply drop a line like this in it:

redirect 301 /cat_9.html http://www.danielcoburn.com/category/games/

This tells the server take the url sent to the server by a user “/cat_9.html” and send it to “/category/games/”

Easy to do, just a pain to do so many.

New theme should be around soon…

I’ll post more often.

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Updated Blog Software – and Behind the scenes