The Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course Review

After the last post I realised that there were a few things that I forgot to mention. In Blogger comments were allowed by registered users. In Wordpress, comment, trackback and pingback spam are major problems. Wordpress 1.5 handles it pretty well by putting any first time commenters into moderation. In other words the comment will not appear until I review it and approve it.

I’ve added a couple of plugins to beef up the protection as well, which means that all comments etc. will go into moderation. So, if you post a comment and it doesn’t appear then please don’t assume that it has gone into a black hole, or that I am trying to supress comments on this site. That is NOT the case. All non-spam comments will be checked and posted, unless of course it is a mindless string of four-lettered abuse or something , in which case the ‘bad words’ list will probably blacklist it.

The other thing I forgot in my last post was to add something to the ‘to do’ list for the site, and that is to put back the links that were on the previous Blogger built site. There were only about 3 or 4 on the links page, but I want to try and put them back on the same page if possible, otherwise I’ll have to notify the webmasters and let them know I’ve moved their links. If you say you are going to put up a link and keep it up then you should do it.

I remember Glenn Canady saying that was an important thing. I think I’ve covered this topic before, but I noticed that there seems to be a renewed flurry of activity on the following thread :

BEWARE !!! CHECK YOUR LINK PARTNERS (Been cheated by those 5star/gorilla people amongst others)

It’s from a lot of very angry webmasters that Glenn Canady had exchanged links with. They discovered that he had dropped their links with no warning or explanation. Which is a bit rich coming from the guy who wrote the Ten Commandments of Linking. Here is commandment number 10 in Glenn’s own words :

#10) Thou Shall Not Take Down Your Link Partner’s Link

If you give somebody a link, then don’t delete it when you think
nobody’s looking! I’ve seen people try to pull one over on me by
getting a link, then deciding to delete their entire link
directory a few months later! These people must think that a
link directory is just something that you do for a while and then
delete when you have some links or something. Linking is not
just something you do for a bit and then throw away - it’s a
total way of life dude! When you’re doing linking right, you’re
building a valuable resource that will get lots of traffic.

Hows that for hypocrisy ?

The Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course Review has moved from Blogger to Wordpress. The migration of the posts has been completed. As I mentioned in the last post, there is no import facility for comments, so the old comments still have to be incorporated into the site. I have lumped all the posts into a single category called ‘All Posts’. I will sort these out into more meaningful categories over the next few days.

My priorities for this site are :

1. Get the comments back up.
2. Create new categories and categorise the existing posts.
3. Create a timeline using categories so it’s clear as to what happened and when.
4. Bring the documentation of events up to date.
5. Cross categorise the events by company and individuals involved.
6. Cover the events surrounding my contact with the BBB.
7. Publish the recent emails between Glenn Canady and myself (he wants me to do this !?)
8. Respond to Jeremy Cobb from Advanced Business Development (AB Development) as to why he was wrong in the comment he left a few weeks ago.
9. Cover the recent contact from Jeremy Cobb at Advanced Business Development, and what they offered me to take this blog down.
10. Create a category for messages of support, and emails from people who have also suffered a similar fate at the hands of Advanced Business Development and/or Glenn Canady.

One of the nice things about moving from Blogger to Wordpress is the added power and flexibility that Wordpress offers. Blogger restricted you to one ping service. There were ways around this, some of which I used, but Wordpress has no such restrictions.

There is plenty information around about importing from Blogger to Wordpress, but it’s not as smooth as it should be. I’ve managed to keep a similar look and feel thanks to some of the superb themes that are available for Wordpress 1.5. I’m using Yadda, from John Hesch, and I’ve just tweaked it here and there to get the colours and layout how I wanted them, and accomodate a couple of plugins. If anyone wants my style sheet and sidebar code then let me know.

Some time over the next 24 hours I am going to be changing the software that I’m using to create this blog. It’s a change that I need to make and have been talking about doing for some time.

If you are currently subscribing to the Atom feed for this blog then please be aware that the location of this will change.

The new location for the Atom feed will be :
http://the-glenn-canady-gorilla-website-marketing-course-review.com/feed/atom/

I will do what I can to redirect hits on the old feed location to the new one, but I don’t know if it will work as planned and it will be FAR easier and safer if people just change over to either the new Atom feed or one of the two new RSS feeds (RSS 2.0 & 0.92).

Why am I changing ? Well, what I’m currently using (Blogger) is a very accessible tool, but once you get to more than a few posts there are annoyances that start to become more and more noticeable. In particular, the lack of categories in Blogger is a major irritation. There are ways around this, all of them messy, and none of them a real solution.

I’m trying to tell my experiences of events that go back to Oct/Nov 2003, but at the same time there are more recent events happening with Glenn Canady and AB Development that need documenting. With Blogger I feel that I am ending up with a jumble of posts. It’s losing the thread of what I am trying to say. If someone looks at my blog for the first time then it’s not clear what the chronological order is , as it jumps backwards and forwards between past and present. I aim to correct that. It will be a much clearer read and people will not have to rummage around trying to find where the start was.

The issues that I’ve faced with (dis)organisation of posts has been one of the things thats held me back from posting too much recently. It seemed that I was just adding to the problem and making more work for myself when I eventually got around to changing software.

There is likely to be some loss of search engine rankings and various other problems. Old page names will no longer match the new page names. I will take steps to minimise the disruption on this. I could make them match but I don’t have the time to fiddle around with the intricacies of MOD REWRITE to get it to do what I want. I’ll settle for some 301’s instead

One thing that I cannot do, and I haven’t come across anyone else who has managed it, is to import the comments from the Blogger site. There are not that many comments on my site, but I do not feel that it would be right just to lose them. It would inevitably lead to someone accusing me of dumping comments because I didn’t like what was said. What I plan to do is to do a copy and paste of all the old comments and put them on a page with as much information linking them to the original post and author as I can. I can’t really see another way around it , unless I do a comment on the post myself and paste the old comment in. But then it looks like I’m replying to all my own posts, and that would just look silly !

Thats it for now. Don’t forget to change to the new feed location ! The next post you read will be on the new software. Please bear with me through any minor hiccups.