Friday, December 12, 2008

He's leaving home

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As I mentioned earlier, I'm going to leave this arbitrarily post-deleting shithole for a new home at Wordpress. The new URL is:

http://halfhearteddude.com (new URL, as of January 2010)

Thank you Google for providing me with a free platform, but don't anyone think that Google is a cuddly maverick outfit. Google is one with The Man.

Anyway, I haven't figured out how to operate the 301 redirect thing (it seems to work only if you have your own domain), so I'll lose my Google rankings. That's a fifth of my traffic. But 36% is direct traffic (over the last 30 days), and 43% is referred, i.e. links on other blogs and, of course, referrals from the wonderful Totally Fuzzy. Since I hooked this show up to Google Analytics in July last year, there have been 222,490 visitors, 55,2% of whom were first-time visitors. I have no idea whether that is any good, but I'm happy that more than 110,000 people have landed up here at some point over the past 18 months (20,000 of them from Totally Fuzzy), and that some have returned.

Over and out.


10 comments:

Chris said...

Hi Major, Blogger must have heard you; your large-sized link is borked (it's got blogger dot com stuffed in it).

I'll try and help convince Miss Parker at Rave & Roll to Wordpress-it; she's too sweet and loves music too much to deal with the crap she's had to.

Any major dude with half a heart said...

Yes, I noticed that, Chris, but thank you for letting me know. A big ass signpost link and it's come out all strange.

I must say I regret leaving Blogger. The free Wordpress option is more limited (I can't even install Google Analytics on it). But at least I live in hope that Wordpress won't DMCA me to the point that I want to chuck in this labour of love.

And, yeah, Miss Parker mustn't throw in thew towel.

WZJN said...

Oh yea, I'll be there. Glad to see that you're not giving up and decided to toss nose into air and move on to greener pastures.

Name of the entry is great!

Kara said...

Doesn't wordpress also have a tendency to delete?

Just a warning.

Darren at Inveresk

PS -posting as my wife, fyi

billie said...

Good luck on your new home. Of course I'll be there for the housewarming, and for regular visits.

Chris said...

Major, just thought you'd be happy to learn Miss P has started up on WordPress. Her new blog is here:

http://raveandroll.wordpress.com/

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