Any particular reason why you felt the need to move away from blogger?

How and why would you delete your Pearls of Wisdom?

Kristal, I moved them all over to the new blog.  So I want to delete them so I don't get dinged by the search engines for duplicate content.  They are not really gone forever...

Carl, I didn't want blogspot in my domain anymore.  I wanted a more flexible site.  Blogger has limitiations like not having categories and wordpress is more powerful and professional looking.  Should be more reliable too.  

Sorry to hear that Maureen.  I realize you don't want dup content, it's just too bad you had to delete your words.  The SE's won't know where to find you...for awhile.

The reality is, one blog is enought.  Two blogs is to many.

Passion?  Passion for blogging or passion fruit?  I don't need either right now, I need sleep!  Give me sleep Active Rain!

How long do you think I could safely leave both blogs up? Any ideas"

I would only post to the new one now though 

Safely?  Blogger is free right?  I don't know much about them, maybe they delete after  a long period of inactivity. 

Business blogs should have good timely content that is worthy of staying up a long time.  Deleting it (except in the case of duplication) is not necessary.  The more content (good, relevant stuff) you have linking back to your site the better.

I fear much of what we are writing here on AR does not qualify for public interest.  We post to each other way too much.  That is good for helping new bloggers learn about the system and find the courage or inspiration to join in the fun, but it won't necessarily bring us Biz.

Biz will come from us attracting consumers for our information.  They will read what we write and be compelled (we hope) to do business with us. 

An so it goes....all deleted huh?  :(

Can't you just kill a Blogger account rather than having to delete them one-by-one?

The new blog's looking great. I'm considering shamelessly stealing your picture tips (giving full credit of course)

Orange you glad I didn't say banana 

I don't want to kill the blogger account because if anyone actually bookmarked it, I want them to know where to go. 

My only reason for deleting is dup content.  I want the new blog to get out of the sandbox as quickly as possible too, of course. 

KK, I agree, there is not a whole lot food for public interest in what we write here.  You've done a good job of putting a Denver spin on many of your posts, so that might help you.  

You could utilize blogger beta, which offers way more features...including categories.

As for "blogspot", you could always point a URL of choice to the blogspot address.

I've had problems in the past with blogger being down.  Beta might have been the way to go, but I had been wanting to try wordpress after doing a lot of research a while ago. I didn't even look at Beta closely.  I did use a pointer in the past, but did not like that with a blog because the links are to a different domain.  

All good suggestions, though. 

Are you using the open source version of Wordpress and using a webhost?  If so, how have you found working with it thus far? 

Yes, and Yes.  I have honestly found it confusing at first, but great once I get beyond whatever my current issue is.  I get immediate answers on their support forums.  Its like someone is just sitting by their laptop waiting to pounce on the newbie with problems.  Very cool.  I've also called my host a couple of times and they've helped me quickly too.  I had a certain AR blogger from AZ on call this weekend, but I ended up not needing to call. 

It sounds funny, but I feel like my blog just grew up.

"It sounds funny, but I feel like my blog just grew up."

I know exactly how you feel Maureen, and it did grow up! I think you're going to love Wordpress.  I managed to mangle something in my stylesheet this weekend (entirely my fault, nothing to do with Wordpress) so I changed styles. Once I found the one I liked, it took seconds. And now the blog has a completely different look and feel. You can't do that with the freebie hosted blogs.

The support, as you mentioned, is phenominal.

The ability to expand and change with plug-ins is great.

Blah blah blah.  

Congratulations on the 'growing up' of your blog.

Let me know if you a looking for some design work to be done on the banner and footer of your new WP blog.  I'd be happy to talk with you about it.  

I know you are at the very least the most knowledeable person that I know personally when it comes to this stuff, everything else I learn second hand and I am not sure it is always correct, but with my blog (typepad) I pay for the service, I bought my own domain name from godaddy and mapped it so it is my blogs domain, I also split the monthly fee with a partner of mine who also has a blog so that we can do custom css, although thus far I have been too affraid to try to learn it....what in your opinion (which I value greatly) is the reason for switching over if I can still do custom css and have my own domain name....will it still be better for me in the longrun to get a more advanced blogging platform?

jp

JP I don't know far more than I do know.

But your real domain is typepad, with a pointer to it.  So your links all show up to typepad not to joshplummer.com.

Its not bad, but its not as professional looking, in my opinion, as having your links all being to pages within joshplummer.com.

Know what I mean?

My hosting package was under $100 for the year.  How much are you paying godaddy for hosting? 

I don't know where you find the time to do this.  Do you sleep?  Nice job on the new blog.

I am just realizing that I shouldn't have deleted those posts, and I didn't need to.  I don't think I would have gotten dinged for dup. content.  Those pages were all indexed.  My new blog is not yet.  Oooops.