The Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course Review

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.

I’ve got a stack of updates due for this site, including posting the emails that Glenn Canady (somewhat bizarrely) wants posted, and also a detailed explanation of why Jeremy from AB Development was wrong with the information he quoted on my site. However, I’m up to my neck in things at the moment and these are going to have to wait a few more days.