self-hosting move disaster

  • chrisdwarner

    (@chrisdwarner)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I moved my blog off wordpress.com to my new self hosted site on DreamHost earlier in October.

    The installation went smoothly enough, but when I attempted to use Jetpack to move all my suscribers over to my new site, all hell broke loose. Jetpack could not automatically move my suscribers to my new site, claiming that I didn’t have admin access. I contacted support on wordpress.com, and they supposedly helped to move my subscribers over to my new site, but nothing happened.

    In fact the opposite happened, all the traffic to my new and old site died, zip, nada… I went from around a 1000 hits a week to nothing.

    Looking deep into the blog site, the export or import to the new self hosted site broke a lot of the hcard data in my blog which prevented the spiders from crawling my new site, and on my old site, traffic continued unabated until I stopped the crawlers… I have fixed the hcard data using a wordpress plugin, but the damage is done. I have zero traffic to my new site, and this is costing me a lot.

    What steps can I try next to recover traffic to my site?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    I recommend getting back in touch with the Jetpack folks.

    It’s possible that by accident they moved the subscribers to the wrong blog, and if so, they can move them back. There isn’t really anything you or we can do at this point about that.

    Which hcard data are you referring to?

    Also, you really can’t control crawlers via WordPress.com either besides blocking them in the Reading settings, so I’m not sure why you think just an export/import would prevent crawlers from crawling your site. Which crawlers?

    Also, under Settings -> Reading in your blog’s Dashboard, do you have “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” unchecked?

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