What would you do if you could start your blog all over again?? I’m happy with a lot of things I did do, like having my own domain and using WordPress. I would have liked to have been a little more familiar with php and the wordpress templates, it took me longer than I would have liked to get a sidebar up and working, for example. I would have put a sitemeter on from the beginning as well, just to see how far I had come traffic-wise.
The main thing that I would do differently now is to change my permalink structure – making it include the post name rather than the numerical id – for better search engine optimization. This is near impossible to do now, as all the old links would have to be redirected. I think in the grand scheme of mistakes, that’s a small thing though.
So, join the group writing project, share what you would change, it’s a help to those just starting out as well as a great way to meet new people in this project!
Thanks for visiting my site! Your blog looks quite smart. And: It’s worth concerning yourself with the huge amount of WordPress plugins…
Nice. You have fewer regrets than most people. My contribution to the project is on my blog.
Thank you for sending me to the problogger writing project. I joined too. I think your site is great, and I may steal some of your ideas – I like the categories in particular, also your little “plus” signs that expand the blogrolls. I must learn how to do this!!
I wrote my thoughts here, if you’re interested: http://kellycurtis.blogspot.com/2006/07/wordpress-and-typepad-and-blogger-oh.html
One thing I discovered last year about non-keyword post urls, whilst researching something for a client, was that Google News doesn’t accept keyword stuffed post addresses, only ones that are number/date related. I subscribe to a couple of news alerts for my blog and see some wierd info in their which is definitely coming from a blog and not a proper news site, so that might be worth 10 minutes of reading around on Google if you want to up your visitors.
Yea, im very glad that I had my permalink structure set up with the title of the post from the beginning.
I still need to do some work on my design though, every browser displays it differently, which is annoying.
Thanks for the comment, im adding you to my feedreader.
You’re not the only one wishing they knew WordPress templates better.. thankfully, though, WP has some pretty decent documentation..
Hey MommaDuck,
I told you I’d be right over…
You must have Boy’s with all the Blue round here.
This writing project is really leading me to a Whole Lot of Blogs I probably would have never found.
Glad to meet ya, and I’ll be back.
Joe
The site meter would have been there to begin with….. Oh well.
If I had to do it all over again, I would have started with WordPress and get my own domain. I’m in the process of doing that now. I also would have chosen a better blog name. I had no idea I was going to take it this far.
Thanks for dropping by my site! I love your blog’s and site’s layout and graphics. What a cool business idea, too. That’s the best thing about these group writing projects — finding other sites that you’d never have known about!