I started taking my blog serious earlier this year and it grew rapidly. I never really received the support from the blogosphere that I deserved, except from a handful of fellow bloggers (and my most loyal reader, Island-Chic!), and many times I have considered quiting.
But I kept at it and months later, my blog has overgrown the functionality offered by the Blogger platform and it has become necessary to move it to a platform that can support a custom domain, highly customizable templates and ironically, better SEO support.
D Chetty
With this in mind, I have launched my blog on www.DChetty.co.za and will discontinue posting on this domain. I will leave my previous blog up for a few weeks, until all my faithful readers have been redirected to my new domain. I will then delete that blog entirely!
I launch today with no love from Google or any of the blog aggregators and will need to start at the very bottom of the pile. Amatomu currently ranks me at 1257th on their list! My challenge is to break the top 300 before the year ends and the top 100 within 3 months from that!
I look forward to your support on my blog and I’m excited about hosting many comment conversations with you!
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November 18th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Congratulations Dee!
You’ve done and amazing job and i’m very impressed! It looks great.
I do hope the aggregators do not failt to see the quality reflected in your blog.
Way to go soldier! Do us proud!
-ur true fan-
November 19th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Loving the new home! It’s absolutely awesome!
November 19th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Eeek, Dee… don’t distort images! (Your header.)
Otherwise I like the new design.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Welcome to WordPress! Muahaha!
I’ll be watching …
~ Wogan
November 19th, 2008 at 9:27 am
@island chic – Thanks my love! You’ve been my biggest fan since I started
@goblin – Thanks! I hope that you become more of a regular now
@Marc – My design skills are rivaled by shoelaces dude! I need to look a full new logo actually. This one is just to bide me over for a few weeks until I can figure Photoshop out
@Wogan – Welcome mate! Stick around and show up more often now buddy!
November 19th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Good to see that you’re running on Wordpress now, you’ll love it once you get into it!
November 20th, 2008 at 1:45 am
this shit is lookin sweet playboy
was nice to meet you the other day btw.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:07 am
@ChrisM – I’m already impressed with it. I can’t wait till I figure out all the inner workings of it, cos then u better watch your back mate! I’m gunning for that award!
@Blade – Thanks mate! Likewise dude…Pop in more often!
November 20th, 2008 at 11:37 am
WOW, impressive look ‘n feel – good luck and keep them coming !!
November 20th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
1257th to 380th in less than 36 hours! Keep it up smartypants!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:21 am
@Arne – Thanks mate! It’s about time that my blog grew up a bit. Expect alot more action now though, so subsribe to my feed, bookmark the new address, set it as your homepage, pull out all the stops mate…but make sure that you visiting often
@islandchic –
I guess that I need to rework my goals a bit and reduced my 300 barrier to a week and entering the sub-200 region by year end… what do you think?
November 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
@DChetty, have already subscribed to your feed looooong ago, but again best of luck – and just wanna itterate – excellent theme.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 am
Thanks alot mate
November 24th, 2008 at 5:21 am
That’s as good as it gets…U inspire me.