Comments on: What was the Question? http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php Free Traffic Methods and Tips from Tinu Abayomi-Paul, featuring Tool Time Fridays, free resources and tools for the webmaster by Morgan Lighter. Get More Visitors. Keep Them Longer. Convert More Sales: Free Traffic Tips. Call us at 702.508.8468. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:59:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tinu Abayomi-Paul http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-30 Tinu Abayomi-Paul Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:16:16 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-30 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. 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.

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-25 Stephanie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:51:46 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-25 Great, Howard. Thank you! Great, Howard. Thank you!

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-157253 Stephanie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:51:00 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-157253 Great, Howard. Thank you! Great, Howard. Thank you!

]]> By: Howard Young http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-24 Howard Young Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:17:41 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-24 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. 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.

]]> By: Howard Young http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-157252 Howard Young Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:17:00 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-157252 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. 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.

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-23 Stephanie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:31:29 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-23 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? 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?

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-157251 Stephanie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:31:00 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-157251 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? 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?

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-22 Stephanie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:29:06 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-22 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? 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?

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question.php#comment-157250 Stephanie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:29:00 +0000 http://www.freetraffictip.com/what-was-the-question/#comment-157250 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? 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?

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