Nada Collar

BlogRush is a new traffic referral widget which is similar looking to blog referral widgets (ie MyBlogLog), but links to posts rather than people. Its been done before, and its nothing really new. But it has had some attention from the likes of ShoeMoney, so I expect it will take off.

The site itself seems reasonably well implemented, the widget looks ok, and the javascript code is nice and simple (so hopefully we don’t see to many security issues of the likes of the BlogLog ones).

BlogRush basically works by giving you credits for page views and using credits when you get a listing on someone else’s blog. You can also get credits by signing up new users. The referral credit goes up to 10 levels deep in a pyramid type scheme, so some people could potentially get huge amounts of credits by being at the top of the tree.

They have a few nice features like spreading credits amongst multiple blogs. Nice help for people with successful blogs that want to start another.

I’ve added the widget, so I’ll see how it goes.

I’ve been crazily busy, so no time to write, then when I became “un-busy” I just wanted to do nothing. So anyway. Here I am again.

Well that was painless. At least the basics. I switched to wordpress using Blogger RSS Import since I was using the new Blogger and wordpress says it doesn’t support it (although I didn’t look around to see if it would work).

Simple really.

1. switched my Blogger to publish on blogspot
2. deleted all the files on my server
3. wrote a quick index.html to say I was switching
4. setup wordpress using Fantastico
5. Changed permalink structure to match blogger: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html
6. Activated Aksimo spam killer
7. installed Blogger RSS Import.
8. Imported.

The only issues I see are:

1. It doesn’t copy comment info (email addresses etc) - no big deal for me since I only have a few comments
2. I have to come up with a new theme and install anything else I had on blogger (Analytics etc)

Overall I’m happy. Just have to work on the theme now.

Update: Decided to remove the .html on the permalink. Changed custom permalink to remove the .html. Added mod_rewrite rule: RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(.*)\.html$ http://www.nadacollar.com/$1/$2/$3/ [L,r=301]