Comments on: Luck is a Curse. How NOT to Relaunch and Rebrand Your Blog. There May Be Tears.

By: Shira

Shira — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:52:26 +0000

Kelly,

I also had a nightmare with my Host when Tchochkes was hacked a while back – who did you switch to? Bc we’re looking for a different hosting provider… (also – who was it so I know who to avoid?)

Thx!

Shira

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:31:32 +0000

I can hear your voice in your titles, which is how I landed here.

By: Free VOIP Calls

Free VOIP Calls — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:33:39 +0000

@Danwow haha thats pretty good. hopefully you have good luck with that. keep it up

By: Bicep Dumbbell Curl

Bicep Dumbbell Curl — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:25:26 +0000

Good luck isnt always good for you. Bad luck has helped me more dealing with problems in this world. I have grown up in a pretty hard life. I have been thrown problems that i couldnt do anything about. But that type of stuff makes you stronger.

By: james brown

james brown — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:49:59 +0000

I would have asked my lecherous friend’s evil genius questions (above) about every single detail and at every decision point. For example, because my developer told me to, I switched my hosting from Windows to Linux. I made this choice without hesitation or investigation. This switch is exactly what caused the problem and caused my site to go offline for four days (and counting – at the time of writing it is still down). I didn’t anticipate the consequences of my decision because I didn’t think through the decision in the first place..

By: NearlyEverything.com

NearlyEverything.com — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:28:18 +0000

Great article and strangely timely for me. I’m undergoing another round of upgrades & changes & technical flatulations. Stressful, but needed in my case.

I’ll drop a suggestion: staging server.

It’s so easy to set up a LAMP or WAMP (Google those) webserver on your local machine, that there’s very little excuse to miss doing all the changes to a local development server before launching. The major benefit of this is that you’ll have a backup of everything too. Great stuff.

…of course, I’m realizing many folks aren’t the techie and just do the writing. I guess my curse is that I’m both. Too much work.

Aaanyway…

By: Murphy Bed Plans

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By: deepak

deepak — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:46:28 +0000

Nicely put.. must take care while redesigning your blog or even a static website.. lots of things need to be taken into account.

I too m in the process of redesigning my blog – http://www.tuubol.com

By: Kevin @ SuperSmartEbook

Kevin @ SuperSmartEbook — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:56:18 +0000

I’m glad I found this email just at the right time. I’m looking to rebranding my personal blog and you’ve just given me some very good advise and insights

Thanks!

By: D. Campbell

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By: Jon Samsel

Jon Samsel — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:09:40 +0000

Kelly-

I cringe because I feel your pain. Something similar happened to me once when I lost my entire blog due to a server admin who inadvertently deleted all the content on a remote hosted server. I was devastated!

LUCKILY, I had set up an RSS feed to my own blog via Google Reader, so I had an electronic copy of all my site content (plus images) of every blog post for the prior 18 months. I was able to export all my posts and import them back into my blog as soon as my new server was up and running. All I had to do was go in and reassign dates for each post, plus add back deleted hyperlinks. A pain, no doubt, but manageable.

Who knew Google Reader and RSS feeds could be a super cheap blog archiving mechanism?!

Best,
-Jon
http://www.jonsamsel.com

By: George Angus

George Angus — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:29:22 +0000

Darren,

I love most of the stuff here anyway, but in this instance, Kelly really hit it out of the park. Hit me right at home as I struggle to do virtually the same thing.

George

By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:56:17 +0000

Kelly, you aren’t the first and certainly won’t be the last to find out what happens when well-meaning folks who don’t understand how search engines work “help”.

Check out the post I’ve linked to this comment which I wrote the day I saw the damage that had already been done by that kind of assistance. And that was far from the first time I’ve been the person to discover what was done too late to restore the drops.

I’m working on a new post now that can assist you in getting your site found by your target audience. I hope you’ll come by and read it. The title will be Are You Playing Hide and Seek With Your Market?

By: Blommi

Blommi — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:04:14 +0000

How horrifying to have your blog “snuffed out”. I had a scare once, and that was enough.

I think I need to have a few WTF moments soon, I am skitish about approaching anyone for requests, also. My parenta must have told me one too many times, not to ask for things and it sunk in a little too well.

By: Bruce Nunnally

Bruce Nunnally — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:14:32 +0000

I ran into this one yesterday (again): “7. Formalize. Undertake and scope your own projects as thoroughly as you would for a client.”
Someone asked me for advice on how to revamp their site, and as I was writing my brisk and insightful advice I realized I have some of the same issues I was explaining to them how to fix on *my* own site. Go figure.
Thank you for sharing these lessons.

By: @donpower

@donpower — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:11:58 +0000

Hi Kelly!

There’s no such thing as LUCK. I think you, like all of us, are subject to the slings, arrows and adulations of FORTUNE.

I talk about the distinction between the two in my blog post:

Never Wish an Irishman Good Luck

http://donpower.me/great-ideas/never-wish-an-irishman-good-luck/

Good Fortune to you!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:37:40 +0000

Luckily this post came out a couple of hours after relaunching my blog, the only different is that I didn’t re brand it, my server was just down for a while, I am however adding my blog to another project and hoping for the best.

Bests,
Alex (GuruOfSales)

By: Ray @ The Stock Market Club

Ray @ The Stock Market Club — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:34:36 +0000

I have been here, done this. The hardest lessons are the best….so they say.

By: abrablog

abrablog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:26:25 +0000

luck is curse? Emm…