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9:58 pm
December 6, 2010
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Benjamin
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Hi Everybody!
Just starting out in the blogging world, I have made my fair share of mistakes. Learning by doing has helped quite a bit! As I sense there are many long term/professional bloggers on here, I thought it may be interesting to learn what you believe your largest mistake that you did for your blog was, and how you fixed it? I know that some people may not love divulging their mistakes, so I will go first!
After creating my first blog a couple months ago, I decided I wanted to change my theme, not knowing what I was doing I did a change and everything was deleted! I ended up having to call the hosting company and delete the entire blog and start all over again!
Can anybody beat that?
Benjamin
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11:00 pm
December 6, 2010
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uhnw
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Been there, done that. Its very annoying. You need to back up your website through your hosting provider so if you do 'accidentally' destroy your own website site, you still have your old posts.
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11:35 pm
December 6, 2010
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Forest Parks
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I sold a website, marked it down as transferred and deleted everything, turned out I hadn't even back it up let alone transferred it. Luckily I had been subscribed to the sites RSS and I had the emails stored in my trash in gmail so had to re-build the site from there.
About 50 posts coped, pasted and re-formated… I should have just given him his money back by the time I got it all done!
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7:20 am
December 7, 2010
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Aloysa
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Good Lord, people! I should have not read all of your posts! Scared me sh…less. Off to talk to my hosting company… about the back up…
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7:38 am
December 7, 2010
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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When I decided to create my 2nd blog, Crystal Clear Thoughts, I accidentally added it where my WP-Admin file for BFS was – I completely locked myself out of my own site and couldn't touch BFS. Blogcrafted had to rescue me. I felt like a complete moron. I even got them to set up Dog's Life For Me just so I wouldn't mess everything up again. I no longer allow myself to mess with the behind-the-scenes stuff.
I'm also making a note to myself to make sure I am backing up my sites with Host Gator frequently after reading these horror stories.
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8:51 am
December 7, 2010
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I've got the Wordpress database backup plugin sending a full backup to my gmail account weekly, and I subscribe to my own feed in Google Reader, to make sure I get the incremental changes if something pukes and dies in the middle of the week. The day I woke up to find all of my posts gone, it took less than an hour to bring it all back online.
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9:28 am
December 7, 2010
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I do daily database backups to my gmail account using the WordPress Database Backup plugin: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog…..-db-backup
I also regularly download all my files to a couple of backup locations, in addition to having files backed up by my host. You can never be too sure!
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12:28 pm
December 7, 2010
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I haven't had any major technical hiccups, knock on wood.
My worst mistake or my biggest regret probably is getting in comment wars with people over political/philisophical/financial issues.
Everybody just feels bad afterwards and nobody really gains any insight when you attack each other, but sometimes people offend, and then you defend, and it just gets out of control.
I'm not sure if it hurt my blog so much, but that's immeasurable really.
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3:31 pm
December 7, 2010
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I was so smart that i decided to edit my site and accidentily deleted the main index page. I spent a day and a half trying to figure out how to readd the index page and had to reinstall a bunch of files.
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5:35 pm
December 7, 2010
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I never had anything that bad happen.
My worst mistake was starting on Blogger and not starting with the right URL.
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6:15 pm
December 7, 2010
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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My worst mistake is not trying to set up a blog from the beginning. So now I have a blog name that does not match my URL. The URL is from my business (KNS Financial), but the blog name is Faithful With A Few.
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7:06 pm
December 7, 2010
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Benjamin
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Hi KNS,
Can you not create a new website name.. www . new name here . com and then forward your old domain name to the new one? Or do you think that would not be feasible?
Benjamin
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7:44 pm
December 7, 2010
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you could do that, but you might need a little help in pulling that one off.
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8:41 pm
December 7, 2010
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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Benjamin said:
Hi KNS,
Can you not create a new website name.. www . new name here . com and then forward your old domain name to the new one? Or do you think that would not be feasible?
Benjamin
Well, one of the problems that I'm facing is that I want http://knsfinancial.com to be more of a resource for people (including clients) to go to for personal finance, and tax information. While the Faithful With A Few blog will include more economic commentary, shopping/coupon help, and biblical finance. So, if I would have had the blog name first and created 2 sites I would be fine. I'm not sure if I can really separate them now. And forwarding the new to the old still wouldn't give me the separation.
I may just have to do something like Paul from Provident Planning did – http://www.providentplan.com/
He seems to have his financial planning site contained within his main site (which holds his blog).
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11:40 am
December 8, 2010
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Sandy @ yesiamcheap
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My worst mistake was starting my blog using Serendipity then finally switching to Wordpress. It was horribly hard to learn and edit AND I missed out on advertising opportunities because ads were hard to integrate on that platform. Migrating to Wordpress meant that all of my old backlinks no longer work since the links all changed when I loved. It's horrible. But now that overs have mentioned it, I need to backup by database as well. :)
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3:22 am
December 16, 2010
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Forest Parks
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Been using the db backup plugin that was recommended and it has been working superb although I think it may be causing a small clash with Alexa which means I am being sent some spam to moderate… Small price to pay though for automated backup!
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