athela blog

As you may know, I’ve bought some epic hosting from asmallorange and with it I’ve put up this blog in the domain that I’ve had for years.  Unfortunately this domain had little to no traffic throughout its time as there was no content! In addition, this blog is sitting on a subdomain that’s completely new.

Note: I’m basing this completely on WordPress’s blog stats which only indicate visitors and not avid readers…

At my old blog, I used to get a regular flow of about 6-13 visitors per day and I could see they were mostly looking at my posts on Sub-Pixel Rendering (Hinting) In Chrome Is Inferior To That Of Firefox and my long gone implementation of a twitter clone in django.  So far so good, people were using Google to find information and my blog was quite high in the results. My old blog post comes in at #2 and #3 when you search for “django twitter clone”.  Maybe this was because of the wordpress.com domain, perhaps it’s held in high regard in Google as all blogs are kept under tight control.  But then it all changed; I moved to a different domain.

It was all the same content, same blogging platform, same publishing dates, but obviously I had lost my rank in Google.  As my old blog was hosted on wordpress.com there was no way of me redirecting all my traffic to my new domain (well, without paying), and no way of stopping google from indexing my posts.  So now my steady stream of low traffic suddenly landed to 0. No visitors whatsoever.  I was thinking how I would recover, seeing as how my old blog had little to no visitors anyway I am now going to endeavour to get back up the ranks in Google.

Getting up high in Google will be difficult though, I’m thinking I should delete en-mass my posts on wordpress.com and that will prevent google from indexing them.  I have written a short note on my old blog posts informing visitors that I’ve moved, but why would they click the new link when the information they want is right there on that page anyway?

Anyway, I guess the only way to get back up on the results is to post high quality posts that are understandable and get people commenting!  And that I shall do…

Laters all,