Comments on: Things I learned moving my blog to a new hosting service (it’s easy!) http://blog.bradgrier.com/2008/05/27/things-i-learned-moving-my-blog-to-a-new-hosting-service-its-easy/ Lifestyle Technology In Plain English Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:39:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bgrier http://blog.bradgrier.com/2008/05/27/things-i-learned-moving-my-blog-to-a-new-hosting-service-its-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-369 bgrier Wed, 28 May 2008 16:17:26 +0000 http://blog.bradgrier.com/2008/05/27/things-i-learned-moving-my-blog-to-a-new-hosting-service-its-easy/#comment-369 @Barbara Ling: Very Good Point! I neglected to mention that I needed to manually reinstall all plugins and other customizations I'd made on the Old Blog. My analytics tracking scripts are managed via plugins so it was crucial that I had this up and running before I 301'd the old site. Thanks for that! @Barbara Ling: Very Good Point! I neglected to mention that I needed to manually reinstall all plugins and other customizations I’d made on the Old Blog. My analytics tracking scripts are managed via plugins so it was crucial that I had this up and running before I 301’d the old site. Thanks for that!

]]> By: Barney Moran http://blog.bradgrier.com/2008/05/27/things-i-learned-moving-my-blog-to-a-new-hosting-service-its-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Barney Moran Tue, 27 May 2008 13:23:21 +0000 http://blog.bradgrier.com/2008/05/27/things-i-learned-moving-my-blog-to-a-new-hosting-service-its-easy/#comment-371 Just as, or perhaps more critical then which blog platform and the visible function of widgets, is the safety of the private information these platforms and widgets may be gathering, unbeknownst to the unwitting Publisher who installs them, about their site. P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has pending inquires to Widget Providers concerning how they generate their income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistic from Publishers Blogs are being used, hopefully with the Publisher’s permission! P.U.B. expects to heard back from Lijit on these financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. When we do we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their deal. Currently we are also working with Blog Publishers to track performance hit evaluations of Widgets too. Let us know if you have any follow up on any of these important issues for the blog community. Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs. Barney Moran, P.U.B. Just as, or perhaps more critical then which blog platform and the visible function of widgets, is the safety of the private information these platforms and widgets may be gathering, unbeknownst to the unwitting Publisher who installs them, about their site.

P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has pending inquires to Widget Providers concerning how they generate their income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistic from Publishers Blogs are being used, hopefully with the Publisher’s permission!

P.U.B. expects to heard back from Lijit on these financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. When we do we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their deal. Currently we are also working with Blog Publishers to track performance hit evaluations of Widgets too. Let us know if you have any follow up on any of these important issues for the blog community.

Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.

Barney Moran, P.U.B.

]]> By: Barbara Ling http://blog.bradgrier.com/2008/05/27/things-i-learned-moving-my-blog-to-a-new-hosting-service-its-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Barbara Ling Tue, 27 May 2008 12:35:21 +0000 http://blog.bradgrier.com/2008/05/27/things-i-learned-moving-my-blog-to-a-new-hosting-service-its-easy/#comment-370 I'd also add: Make CERTAIN you include your tracking script as well. Several times my visitor count dropped to 0 until I realized I had neglected this kinda sorta critical step.... Enjoy, Barbara I’d also add:

Make CERTAIN you include your tracking script as well. Several times my visitor count dropped to 0 until I realized I had neglected this kinda sorta critical step.…

Enjoy,

Barbara

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