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user-inactivated  ·  3558 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The 2015 Morale Menagerie - Fortnightly Check-in (3rd March)

It's been a crazy couple of weeks, so I've had to delegate to one post a week the past two weeks. Not bad, though, checked yesterday and my views for February have beaten those in January. I'm trying to go a little higher each month.

I want to migrate my blog to Ghostly, but I'm thinking it might be better to just buckle down with Wordpress, get a dedicated host and url so I can ditch the ".wordpress" part of my blog, and actually learn something about SEO (shudder) if I want to get more views. That way I can keep the reader-base I already have while continuing to grow. Anyone have experience with this sort of thing?





blackbootz  ·  3558 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I want to migrate my blog to Ghostly, but I'm thinking it might be better to just buckle down with Wordpress, get a dedicated host and url so I can ditch the ".wordpress" part of my blog, and actually learn something about SEO (shudder) if I want to get more views.

I say do it! Sounds like you could learn a lot in the process. And by it I mean find a host and learn some SEO. Although now that I think about it, that view is predicated on the idea of you losing followers when migrating to Ghostly. Do you think you'd lose a lot of traffic migrating?

user-inactivated  ·  3558 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Do you think you'd lose a lot of traffic migrating?

To Ghost, yeah. I just want a bit more control in my website as a whole.

I'll do it tonight, just to see what happens.

Edit: Whelp. http://eightbitsamurai.co/ is now a thing. Let's see how this goes. Gonna read a massive SEO tutorial tomorrow, and start getting a redirect going from the old blog to keep traffic. Woot.