So I finally have some time to start moving my blogs as well as my friends’ blogs (more on that below) this weekend, but I’m still trying to figure out the best method to make the transition as smooth as possible.
I have several blogs scattered all over the place since 2004 and possibly a couple more from 2003. Some are on my own domain names while others are on free blog hosting sites. Each blog has plenty of posts in them so it’s a considerable amount when you put them all together.
I have plenty of friends with blogs everywhere as well that want to also move all their blogs in one location and they’ve asked me if I wanted to put everything under one roof (under www.digitsmith.com/blog/). I think it’s a great idea and now I’m in the process of doing so.
Unfortunately, not everyone uses the same blogging software and this means that, in short, problems. If worst comes to worst, I’ll just have to do a lot of manual work as supposed to an automated method as I have planned.
I also have to devise a way to redirect blog posts from their previous URL to the new ones. The best way would be to use a 301 redirect for SEO purposes. This is probably the biggest problem I have to deal with as I’m sure free blog hosting providers restricts the use of .htaccess files for security purposes. I better start emailing them as I’m sure there is always an exception to the rule. If I can’t use .htaccess, I guess I’ll have to figure out another way.