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By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:44:25 +0000

Ryan, that’s really good to know. I actually bought the domain wpgarage, so maybe one day I’ll get around to moving this site onto that domain. But first I need to recover from our recent horror moving our sites from one server to another.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:09:28 +0000

FYI, I transferred a whole bunch of posts via 301 redirects from ryanhellyer.net to pixopoint.com quite a few months ago now. I saw absolutely no change in search engine traffic volumes during the changeover apart from a rapid shift from one domain to the other.

So basically my first statement here about 301 redirects not causing any loss in traffic seems to be true in my case. There is no reason (that I can think of) for Google not to continue to feed traffic to your site in this type of situation.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:50:58 +0000

Lorelle – I can stir up quite a discussion, eh?

It seems from Matt’s last comment that he doesn’t expect me to change my domain name, so I’m not going to for the time being.

As for whether the name of this blog is fitting: 99.9% of what I’ve been writing for almost a year is pure WordPress, the other 0.01% of stuff being about extra tools and widgets that can help enhance a WordPress blog. In short, this is most definitely a blog about WordPress.

It’s very nice what you said about the value of what I have to share etc. I have to disagree, but in any case I’ve implemented a lesson I’ve learned from you – every blog should have a focus. So WordPress Garage focuses on WordPress, but it does have my personal flavor. My business blog focuses on business, social media and Israel. And maybe one day I’ll start a blog on how to raise truckloads of kids and run a business. That’s pretty much the wisdom that I can offer the world (that it would like to hear) through my writing at this time.

So I guess I have quite a few garages I’m not creating any more since sleep is something that I hear is highly recommended for human beings.