Hi Everyone! First I want to thank everyone for all of the helpful comments and suggestions about moving my blog to my own site and using wordpress. Sorry I wasn’t able to thank everyone individually. But I did read each one and it helped me figure out what to do. I decided to go ahead and do it, and I’ve just about got everything set up. So today or in the next couple of days, I’ll switch this blog over to my web site.
As far as I can tell, I can import it so that all of my posts will be on the new blog. I’m a little fuzzy on how moving it will effect people who follow or subscribe to it, using the “old blog’s” URL and RSS feed, etc. I will try to switch everything so that you don’t have to resubscribe because I’d hate to lose any readers or inconvenience anyone. And this was part of why I debated on whether to move or not. But I figured it was better to do it now than later when my readership had grown more. I’ll know more about the details of how this effects subscribers & followers after I import it to my new site, and I’ll let you know if you need to resubscribe or not.
As an incentive to “help” me make the transition, after I get it switched, I’ll announce a giveaway on the new location! I haven’t figured out what yet, but I have a few ideas. Even after I make the switch, I’ll be tweaking some things as they come up (or as I figure out how to do them–it’s amazing that you can spend hours trying to figure out how to make what seems like a simple change to something).
After I switch it over, I believe if you go to the “old blog” on blogger, it’ll redirect you to my new one. And I think I can put a post on it reminding you that I’ve moved. The new URL is:
http://www.TraciBunkers.com/blog
You are welcome to take a peak, but keep in mind I’m still setting up house! And I’ve posted some sample posts and comments to see how it looks.
Now, a question for those of you who are wordpress savvy, Can you explain “categories” to me? I get tags/labels because those are commonly used here on blogger and on other sites. So how are categories different? It seems important because that’s part of how the search engines find you (I think . . . ).
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Imagine an old fashioned file cabinet. Each drawer is a main category. When you open the drawer each file folder is a sub-category.
Or the sections in a book store or library. Each section (fiction,non-fiction,travel) is a category. Sub-categories for travel might be (North America, Canada, Australia).
Each category has a page that is a list of all of the recent posts to that category. It includes sub-categories (or child categories). So Art Journal could be a category and a type of journal, or style of journaling could be the sub-category.
Tags are things discussed in the actual post. So a journal page made with yellow and blue flowers with black sumi ink outlines and talking about today's walk in the garden would have tags like this: yellow,blue,flower,ink,garden,walk
Hope that helps.
Search engines find you based on all of these things along with headlines and the use of sub-headlines.
If you have questions feel free to ask! Good luck with your new blog you are on the right track.
Just taking a peek around. It must be quite a bit of work changing it all over. Looking good so far!
Categories ~ Table of Contents
Tags ~ Index
The TOC is not a perfect analogy, but I think an index and tags are very similar ideas.