Beth Granter » SEO http://bethgranter.com/blog Social media, online communities, interface design, ethics and feminism Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:20:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Search term wordle http://bethgranter.com/blog/2010/07/search-term-wordle/ http://bethgranter.com/blog/2010/07/search-term-wordle/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:02:37 +0000 Beth Granter http://bethgranter.com/blog/?p=445 I love looking at site analytics, and one of the most interesting and useful things to look at are search terms people use to find your site. So you can really look at what topics people are interested in. I had a look at how people come to my site via Google, grabbed the top 20 phrases and put them into Wordle. I didn’t weight the most commonly used ones against the 20th most commonly used one, but this still gives a good representation of the key themes people search for, that I write about.

Search terms used to discover bethgranter.com


]]> http://bethgranter.com/blog/2010/07/search-term-wordle/feed/ 0 Moving my Wordpress blog to my own domain and SEO – advice please! http://bethgranter.com/blog/2009/10/moving-my-blog/ http://bethgranter.com/blog/2009/10/moving-my-blog/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:48:52 +0000 Beth Granter http://bethgranter.com/blog/?p=383 So I finally did it. I moved my blog from Wordpress.com to Bethgranter.com (which was embarrasingly out of date due to being hard coded) using the Wordpress.org CMS. Picked a new theme. Set the front page to a single Page rather than latest Posts (good or bad idea? Comments please). Imported all my content and your comments. BUT…

My old blog at Wordpress.com has a bunch of incoming links from various places from over the years, providing lots of lovely Google Juice. Obviously the new site doesn’t (yet). I can’t do any automatic redirecting from Wordpress.com because it’s hosted there and they don’t allow it (for free… there may be a paid option, not sure). So I’ve just put a big fat ‘This blog has moved to bethgranter.com’ message in the navigation and on the homepage.

However, when people go direct to a specific article, which they normally do, via Google searches or inbound links, they still get the content they wanted, so have no reason to go through to my new site. If I were to delete all my old posts, people coming via referring links to posts would be faced with a ‘page not found’ message (albeit provided in a friendly Wordpress tone of voice) with the ‘this blog has moved to bethgranter.com’ message in the header and sidebar.  And Google would recognise the bethgranter.com content as the priority. Although without those inbound links those good (moved) posts would have no Google Juice, so I’d get less traffic. Today so far my blog at Wordpress.com had 68 visitors. This one at Bethgranter.com had 17, of which 5 were from the old blog. I guess that’s not bad considering I only put the blog on Bethgranter.com 48 hours ago. So yeah, the question is:

Should I delete my old juiced up blog posts from Wordpress.com now they are on Bethgranter.com?!

Cool looking kid who doesnt know what to do. Photo by yamagatacamille.

Here's a cool looking kid who doesn't know what to do either. Photo by yamagatacamille.

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