WebDiggin.com: An Adventure to Make Money Online

We’ve moved. Welcome to WebDiggin.com – An Adventure to Make Money Online. We’re all about generating cashflow through affiliate marketing, sponsored search marketing, content websites, and more. We moved for a variety of reasons. If you’re interested, you can check out our post to find out why we switched our webhost over to BlueHost.

Setting up WordPress to fuel our blog was easy. WordPress allows you to export and import all of your posts, comments, and categories, so moving the bulk of our website over was easy as well. Copying over the WordPress theme that we like so much was easy as well. But we had a few stumbling blocks that you’ll need to consider if you’re moving your WordPress blog over from one website to another:

1. We couldn’t figure out how to copy the widgets in the sidebar over so we had to cut and paste text manually. As we had multiple sites to set up, that kinda sucked.
2. We had to reset our feedburner RSS feed to our new location.
3. We had to fix the links in our posts. (Not because we switched domain names, but because we chose to switch the organization structure of our permalinks.)We use a lot of links to connect with previous posts. When we moved to WebDiggin.com, all of our links pointing to cashflow.gohanyo.com were dead. We did still own the domain name so we pointed it back to WebDiggin.com which was fine, except… we decided we would tidy up our permalinks. (We wanted to improve our Search Engine Optimization by working on the links to our posts.) I suppose if you didn’t own your old domain, you would have to go through and fix all of the links as well… Instead of organizing our post by date and name (i.e. webdiggin.com/2008/02/22/sample-post/) we switched it over to being organized by category and name (i.e. webdiggin.com/category/sample-post/). So we had to go through all of our links to fix them one by one. (We are using a broken link checker plugin which identifies the posts where the broken links are hiding in, however, we still have to manually go through to fix the dead links… all 105 of them.)

Bottom Line: Getting a new domain and switching our WordPress blog over to BlueHost was easy. We had to overcome a few stumbling block like manually recreating our sidebar widgets, fixing the RSS feed, and pointing our old domain name to our new domain to fix the internal links, but other than that, setting up our new website has been relatively painless.

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