Nov 5 2008

How To: Redirect Blogspot to Point at Wordpress Hosted Blog

I wrote this post to myself on my personal blog in February while I was attempting to transition from my old site on Blogspot to my new site at Dreamhost. At the end of it, I over thought it, and should have simply shut down the Blogspot site after a month and not worried about [...]

Oct 29 2008

Moving from Blogspot to Hosted Wordpress?

Simply use a 301 redirect with some devilishly ingenious code from TechCounter:
301 Permanent Redirect from Blogger Beta to WordPress
11. May 2007, 10:51 By Ryan Ferone
Most Bloggers start out with free blog hosting with the most popular of the free services being Google’s blogger where you get a yoursite.blogspot.com address. Now you want to move from Blogger [...]

Oct 28 2008

How To: Blogspot Entries Cleaned Out

So after figuring it was long enough wait I have destroyed and recreated both original entries of my Blogs.
Originally this site was Not How To Do It on Blogspot and it held pretty much an exact duplicate of a lot of the entries in this site, however, I did the following steps:

Log onto the Blogspot web [...]

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Oct 27 2008

Book Review: Essential Blogging

I took this book out of the Ottawa Public library just to see what interesting tid bits I might pick up, as I usually find all books by O’Reilly and Associates very informative.
The book itself is an excellent resource for beginner bloggers who want to start out and figure out how to set up their [...]

Oct 23 2008

Using Alexa To Clean up

I have been trying to find a smart way to clean up my old blog on blog spot Canadian Financial Rants, but I finally bit the bullet and deleted it and then recreated it.  That purged all of the entries on the site, and now it has a single entry telling whoever trips over the [...]

Oct 5 2008

Page Rank of 2/10

This is quite funny because now both my sites have this page rank, including this site. I am astounded to see that somehow this simple little “on line notebook” is actually ranked at 2/10, while my Canadian Personal Finance Blog which has thousands of links and such is also 2/10 (but then again, so is [...]

Aug 12 2008

Links Repaired

So after spending most of my spare time this past weekend, repairing any links on my web site that pointed at it’s old Blogspot address, I am now attempting to tackle all of the rest of the broken links on Canadian Personal Finance blog, and it is turning out to be another behemoth of a [...]

Jul 25 2008

Spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam and spam

Originally posted on my finance blog after a particularly vulgar weekend that I spent cleaning up hundreds of SPAM comments on my blogspot account. Spam, Spam, Spam…..
I don’t like SPAM !
No that is not my breakfast, it is what I am now continually finding as “comments” on this page. I have turned off Anonymous comments, [...]

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Jul 18 2008

How to: Move from Blogspot to Hosted Wordpress — Internal Links

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I have to learn, is sort of how my week has been going for this blog.
After realizing that there must be BLOGSPOT based internal links in the content on this web page that points to my old Not How To Do It blog, I wondered [...]

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Oct 11 2007

Good story, guess i need more readers

Figured Walter’s Turkey story was a sure fire winner, but I guess there just isn’t a market for psychotic, pseudo farmers who don’t know how to kill poultry. It was an idea.
The traffic on this site continues to be a little flat, but then again, it is not like I am posting a great deal [...]

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