New domain: SearchBeest.com

Posted on November 20, 2007
Filed Under general | 6 responses

I've finally pulled my finger out, bought searchbeest.com and changed this blog's hosting away from WordPress.com. Starting the blog on WordPress.com broke the first rule of new blogs (or rule #2 according SEOmoz and rule #11 according to Netconcepts; and while you're at those sites, admire what wonderful link bait these lists make).

So now I have control over the blog, I've picked a new template, which I've slightly tweaked, and installed a few plugins from this list.

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    6 responses to “New domain: SearchBeest.com”

    • http://blog.arhg.net Andrew Girdwood

      Good stuff! I can confirm that the RSS feed seemed to switch over fine. Google Reader’s automatically moved me to SearchBesst.com.

    • http://searchbeest.com searchbeest

      Thanks for the confirmation Andrew, but it’s not quite good as it could be. The redirect from the old wordpress.com url is a 302, not a 301. To get it to work I had to mess about with nameservers too (details here).

      I’ll probably flick the feed over to Feedburner sometime this week too.

    • http://mediaczar.com/blog Mat Morrison

      Feedburner’s pretty useful, you know.

      Incidentally — have you seen that Google Adwords now shows you search volume estimates? How accurate do you think these are?

    • http://mediaczar.com/blog Mat Morrison

      Have just seen that this was posted in 2007 — why are you pushing it on Facebook today?

    • http://searchbeest.com searchbeest

      How am I pushing this on Facebook? I’ve not promoted my blog on Facebook since Twittersync broke a couple of months ago.

    • http://searchbeest.com searchbeest

      Hm, something caused Twitter Tools to twit about 8 old posts yesterday evening, including this one. Not sure why that happened.

      Back to your first comment, I will be writing a post on Google’s new traffic estimator in the next couple of days.