Anyone have an idea about how can I transfer my Technorati Rating from the old typepad site to the new domain?
On the claim form, do I just claim a new blog (via this: Technorati Profile), or is there a way
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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November 8th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Bad news is you can’t do it.
http://yoast.com/technoraty-authority-sucks/
November 8th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Changing URLs also kills your Google rankings for a bit. Google basically puts new sites / sites that changed URLS in a “sandbox” and watches them for a month or so before deciding if they are legit.
November 9th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Barry, have you considered putting a redirect on your old blog? A Meta refresh redirect wouldn’t interfere with any of your already built up rankings with Google or others. It would slowly redirect that traffic, and that credability to your new blog.
Ask your geeks about it.
Stick this code in your old blog and when a user loads the page, it will redirect in 2 seconds to the new site.
November 9th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Yeah, that’s on the list for December 1 — I am going to dual post for a while, then just use the 1st para at the old site, with a redirtect for the rest of the post to the new site.
Then, the final redirect . . .