The trials and travails of this little experiment have take their toll on sleep and other things in life the past couple of days. But in barely two month of existence. Lots of help from 2000 bloggers project and others linking here we broke the 100 barrier.
It does pay to keep track of these things. One way to know you have an issue:
If you start seeing links back from yourself. You have an issue.
I’m not going to miss this little experiment in the Lab. I certainly hope others will benefit from this little stinker of an exercise.
Ever Find Your Self in a Pickle?
(UPDATE!) I SEEM TO HAVE HIT THE RIGHT COMBINATION AND ALLOWING TIME FOR RESET. I HAVE TO CHANGE THE URL FOR IMAGES IN POSTS. IT SEEMS OTHER THAN THAT ALL IS WORKING AS IT SHOULD.
I’M LEARNING TO HATE IE LIKE SO MANY OTHERS THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE.
THANKS TO ALL, I’ll leave the post for any others that are searching. Part of my problem was impatience. It takes a little time for a 301 to make it’s way through the system at least as far as IE is concerned.
I’m in a self made pickle of sorts. And I don’t know what to do, or how to fix it. So I’m asking for help.
Please read the post on Your ULR – Technorati Ranking Google PageRank.
I made the change yesterday of the url from:
http://www.barbaralasky.com/realestatebloglab/
to http://www.realestatebloglab.com
I put a 301 redirect in the htaccess file
redirect 301 /realestatebloglab http://www.realestatebloglab.com
Here seems to be the issue.
It works fine in Firefox but IE 6 gives me a 404 page not found for everything after the main page.
I don’t know how to fix it. I don’t know if it is the syntax of the 301
If I have to create a 301 for every post and page.
I’m grasping at straws at this point.
I got the lab in over my head on this one and I really want to get it back up and running on IE and not just Firefox.
I will greatly appreciate any help on this one. I feel pretty helpless right at the moment.
When I first set up the lab one of the first experiments was to see the effect of having more than one URL pointing to the same place.
I know for someone just beginning to figure out their web site/blog they might not know the difference.
In the beginning all we care about is if people can find out site. In this case we set up our blog to run out of a directory in our main host directory. This is a folder and not a sub-domain. In this instance here are the players.
I created a directory (folder) called realestatebloglab this folder contains all the wordpress files for the Real Estate Blog Lab. The url is: http://www.barbaralasky.com/realestatebloglab/
I bought the url: http://www.realestatebloglab.com
When I bought the domain I told it to point to the directory realestatebloglab.
- I told Wordpress the url was http://www.barbaralasky.com/realestatebloglab/
- I used that address when I left comments on blogs
- I set it up as the url in Technorati and claimed the blog
The next step was to start using the http://www.realestatebloglab.com
- I used this address when I left comments on blogs
- Along came the 2000 bloggers project and I used this URL
- I claimed my blog on Technorati
- I waited a few weeks for the pot to boil
The 2000 bloggers project put this experiment into hyper drive. I wish I could say it was the interesting posts that started the links pouring in but it was the 2000 bloggers project that did it.
Yesterday I called a halt, (well as much of a halt as I could), to the project.
Let’s take a look at the results and the implications.
Results
- http://www.barbaralasky.com/realestatebloglab/
- 64 links
- 11 sites
- ranking 359,753
- Google PR 2
- http://www.realestatebloglab.com
- 126 links
- 80 sites (yes, it updated after the screen shot)
- ranking 43,515
- Google PR 4
Implications
- Instead of putting forth one consolidated effort on the web it split the effort.
- The Google PR update recently helped with this project showing how the lack of links can impact the PR of a site dramatically.
- Higher PR translates into higher organic placement for keywords
- Otherwise known in blogspeak “More Juice”
- The continued diminished return as links accumulate down both paths
- Confusion as people and search engines see the same place as two
The same issue applies to using http://www.realestatebloglab.com and http://realestatebloglab.com both are seen as separate URL’s and create split paths.
Fixing it:
Fixing this is basically the same as if you moved your blog to a new url. Here is what I did and believe me I am no expert on this stuff. I’m just trying to shine a light so those behind can see a little better.
- Beg everyone you know to use just the URL you have picked to use.
- check the links you have and get into contact with them and request they change the links to the new url.
- write a blog post letting people know the URL you prefer asking your readers to change the URL they have book marked or are using for their RSS Reader. (They may want to delete the feed and re subscribe.)
- Do a 301 redirect in your htaccess file to direct any of the incoming traffic on the old URL to the new URL.
If you have read this far and you find any of my links to the old URL would you please update them with the new one. Here it is again http://www.realestatebloglab.com
If you can shed some light on other things that can and should be done please comment. I know this can be an issue for blogs and web sites alike.
Meebo hit the RE Blogging community last week when it started showing up on a lot of the real estate blogs I read everyday.
I found this Meebo post at 3 Oceans Real Estate by Kevin Boer
quickly followed by seeing it appear on:
Phoenix AZ Real Estate Blog Jonathan Dalton
Transparent RE Pat Kitano
Tucson Real Estate
I put it on the Lab blog to take it for a spin. It requires you to install a code snippet which I put in a text box in the side-bar widget. It also requires you to log into your Meebo account in order to appear online and ready to chat.
You don’t chat in the same window like Gabbly you can see it in action at Sellsius
When someone comes to your blog Meebo goes out and checks to see if you are available. This does effect the load time of your blog and it repeats the process every time a user clicks to view a new page or post.
The downside I discovered is the Meebo code causes 6 wc3 validation errors. At least it did on both my blogs. Once I removed the meebo code snippet the validation errors went away.
I’m very particular about staying WC3 compliant. I like seeing the green screen of validation instead of the red screen of errors.
If it doesn’t bother you to be out of WC3 compliance Meebo might be for you. For I’ve removed it from both blogs. If I get time I’ll try and see if there is a fix for the code to bring it into compliance like the fix for the MyBlogLog Widget posted here.
Tiga, of all themes in all the Wordpress world I had to pick you. You had what I wanted, three columns and most of all a post column 600px wide. I like large images and room to write. I’ve looked at many other themes, three column, but just can’t find one with the width for posts; even 550px would be good.
But alas, Tiga you present a lot of problems for this blogger.
First was the issue with permalinks, if you use anything but the default setting the formatting goes up in smoke.
Then the incompatible blogroll for Wordpress 2.1 The author fixed that after a couple of days and we were happy campers again.
On a routine WC3 validation I discovered that if you put the blogroll in the sidebar widget it creates 4 validation errors. There is an issue in the tiga.php code replacing the links code. If you comment out the code to use the replacement code the errors disappear. But you are left with a theme that looks broken.
I’m using a trial version of the latest BlogJet 2.0 to write this post. It can’t import the links to manage the posts because of the way Tiga configures categories.
So it is time for me to let you go. I’ll pay you a visit from time to time, but for now I must leave you behind and hope for better days ahead with a theme I can live with. But you will always be my first theme to torn into and tried to make sense of the world behind the pretty interface.
I’ve spent so much time trying to get 2.1 up and running with the Tiga theme and various plugins I haven’t done much in the way of posting. Now I’m trying to post and the new editor is biting me hard. Of course I discover this after saying it might be ok to upgrade to 2.1.
IF YOU ARE USING THE BUILT IN TEXT EDITOR DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DON’T UPGRADE.
I have a lot to write about today because for the past couple of days I’ve been trying to figure out how this new editor works. The old editor was pretty simple to use. For example
If I wanted to display an image to the right with text to the left. I inserted the image. selected the image and selected justify right. That would put the image inside a div and I was off and running.
However, the new version with the code tab doesn’t work that way, and when I try and put a div statement in by hand it removes it. And you might even notice that in code view, for the most part it isn’t like the HTML editor of the past there are no visible paragraph or break tags.
So instead of writing I’m trying to figure out the editor with no great luck. I’ve searched on Wordpress on changes to this thing, I’ve found nothing.
Now I’m trying to find an editor I can use that will allow me to do what I want and hope that someone will fix this stupid editor. I can’t believe I’m the only person out there that wants to display their images beside text.
Any suggestions on an editor? The only reason I didn’t try blogjet, no technorati tags. I really like that feature. I see there is a new blogjet 2.0 out there. I’ll do some more reading on it.
Again, any suggestiong. Trust me I am open, I just don’t want to give up any of the functionality like tags, technorati tags, images beside text. Tweaking from a code view when I want to.
I want a smart editor but not one that thinks it is smarter than me.
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