After a couple of hiccups, the blog appears to have migrated across from Typepad. Good riddance. What was I thinking? The only thing I’ll miss about this blog’s former host is sitting on the Typepad update stream which flies straight into Google. I’m hoping the great Google Juice will persist now, even though I had 404’s on the permalinks for a  day.

I’m probably not going to port the images across, just because, well, this blog isn’t the highest priority. Day job, micro ISV and my offshore consultancy gigs all take precedance, but I’m looking forward to being able to get back to blogging here again.

If everything goes smoothly, this will be the last post I make to this blog whilst hosted on Typepad. I’m attempting to port it across to Wordpress on Dreamhost to live with all my other sites.

I’ve
used Wordpress a lot recently, and now understand its total superiority
to Typepad in pretty much every regard. My $150 renewal fee is due in a
couple of days, which has focused my mind somewhat. This blog has great
Google Juice, and I really don’t want to give that up, so I’m
particularly keen to keep the URLs the same. There are quite a few
posts on the web about how best to do this, they all seem different

If anyone’s done this recently, please share your wisdom.

See you on the flip side.

Image via Wikipedia

Apologies for the lack of posts. I’ve had a couple of weeks on
holiday on the fantastic North Yorkshire Moors Railway. I’m not a
trainspotter, but the kids simply love it, and Grosmont is a village in a time vortex.

I was getting twitchy about being disconnected for two whole weeks, but you know what, it was great.

Normal posting will resume on Monday.

The Website Grader did give me some pointers though.

• No permanent redirect from agilemicroisv.com to www.agilemicroisv.com. I’ll have to look at this. An initial parse of GoDaddy suggests everything is as it should be.
• Page Rank = 0. Fail.
• Alexa rank of 5,877,627
    which is in the top 48.98% of all web sites. This seems pretty lame. Fail.
• Inbound links = 590.
• No entries in DMOZ, Yahoo Directory or ZoomInfo.

Website Grade = 67

Must try harder. I’ll report back when I’ve made the changes suggested. I’m curious to see the results.

I’m
not too worried about the Home Document Manager site at the minute,
simply because the site isn’t finished, and the software isn’t
finished.

I’m declaring feed bankruptcy and starting again. All should be back to normal now.