What was the Question? : Free Traffic Tips

I’m loving the increase in commenting. To encourage it, I’m requesting…. questions. Click the link to get to the full post if you’re on the front page or in the feed and ask me a traffic question. I don’t know it all, but I’ve got people I can ask that you might not know about.

So. This is one of them open threads. I’ll answer as many as I can. If your question is either really common, really good, or results in an interview with a different kind of expert, I’ll answer it as a new post with a link back to your site and add you to my sidebar lnk rotation.

This post is not live. I’m away at a family function.

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Tinu Abayomi-Paul is the CEO of Leveraged Promotion, a member of the Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board, and Editor of Women Grow Business. Her website promotion company specializes in reputation management, and building traffic systems for business. You can find her on Google+ and Twitter.

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Hi Stephanie,

Thanks for asking. :)

1 - Howard was right. I used Wordpress' import function. What I lost in the conversion? The ability to use the same URLs for my archives. Do I forward over a thousand posts and their archive pages, since the syntax in Wordpress is different? I also temporarily lost part of my ability to modify the HTML for additional search-friendly benefit. In Blogger you have direct HTML access to the theme. So I have to read up on it to find out where to go to make my modifications, as some parts of the theme call other things in PHP, things like the sidebar.

In this particular template, which I actually bought, I can't just dump html in the sidebar template. Long story. We'll see if Widgets fixes that.

Gained: Search functionality, smoother commenting, better trackback, the ability to use my blog as a light CMS tool (with the pages function), a more professional look without the time investment, a better tagging system, cool plug-ins, stronger spam protection, more control etc etc.

Did I lose anything as far as posts? Nope. I don't know if I can import my trackbacks but I'll find out, and if I can't I'll just redo them manually.

The time it took once I picked a template? 7 minutes total. The time it took for me to make the template work to the minimum of my standards? 6 hours.

I'm gonna make the Squidoo one a new post.

Thanks for answering that for me Howard. Your contribution to the community feel of this place is much appreciated.

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Stephanie

Great, Howard. Thank you!

Howard Young

Wordpress (2.0+) has an import function where you can import posts and comments from Blogger, RSS feeds, Movable type and a few other CMS platforms.

I believe that the Blogger version of Free Traffic Tips was using HaloScan for comments. If you have an advanced HaloScan account like Tinu, you can export those comments.

I'm curious what you think of Squidoo as a traffic-building tool? I've done one post on baby gifts, and it wasn't very time-consuming. Seems like it would take about as long as an article if you're going to give it some thought.

Some have criticized Seth Godin as making money off of other people's content, but isn't that what all the article directories do too?

How did you convert your blogger blog to Wordpress. It seems like you have all the old posts and you have the same URL, so what was the process? Did you lose anything in the conversion? Time? Material?