http://www.thisisthis.blogspot.com/ - They Stole My Website
http://www.thisisthis.blogspot.com/ the blog is now at http://www.thisisthis.org - of course, you’re here, so you know that, but for everyone looking for the site on a search engine, visit THISISTHIS.ORG
OK, so think I deleted my old blogspot site, and as soon as I did, someone registered http://www.thisisthis.blogspot.com/ and stuck up some commercial site there. Maybe whoever did it wanted to take advantage of my hard earned google rating. I don’t know, but it’s a very cheap trick. So if anyone is linking to http://www.thisisthis.blogspot.com/ and finds it goes to a rubbish site full of ads, then go to http://www.thisisthis.org/ instead, which is here and which I fully own.
I have written to blogger.com in the meantime, but for shit’s sake, really. Is a blogger.com address worth that much that people wait for them to be deleted before creating them seconds later for their own stuff?
June 1st, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Um, yes, it is worth it …
(sorry to tell ya this after that horse has well and truly bolted but it might stop future pain for others)
It’s a good idea to keep the old address and apply a html redirect for two reasons:
1) Top stop what you’ve just experienced;
2) Most people just won’t bother to update their links, bookmarks, del.icio.us account, rss feeds etc etc and so the redirect shifts visitors to the new site
June 2nd, 2006 at 12:04 am
It’s cool Mike. Thing is I did keep the old site, I just changed my publishing directory. Maybe that kills the old site in blogger.com
Then someone else overwrote it, or created another one and overwrote it.
All well, things change.
I got everything I need across to this new one anyway.
Wished I’d known what you said though.
June 2nd, 2006 at 5:44 am
So funny! I almost commented a few days back about the importance of creating a redirect and keeping the old site alive. But then I thought, “Ah, don’t be a geek, Bon. Go outside and play.”
Oops. Sorry someone stole your old ’stie. Let’s teach Google how to get to you here. I’m sure everyone will find their way here.
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Cliff,
You need a new RSS feed! When I have my RSS aggregator search for the RSS feed for thisisthis.org, I comes up with your old blogspot feed — i.e. http://thisisthis.blogspot.com/atom.xml . And when that happens, I end up reading the “this is this: the online diary of Angel Richardson” — which freaks me out.
You can set up a RSS feed with feedburner, or, no doubt, your fancy-smancy software will develop one in a snap or you can write your own with arachnophilia. Or you could send your hundreds of readers telegrams whenever you post something. Or, you could stop by our houses, tell us a little about your new posts and serve us bundt cake with raisins. Your call. But if you don’t hurry, some of your readers will be enticed by Angel, whom I think was the girl in the Perfumo Affair. She still has her looks; it’s really, really scary — especially for us nervous Americans.
June 2nd, 2006 at 6:51 pm
That’s weird, Tom, the feed for the new version of this site works just fine for me! Odd.
June 2nd, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Hiya Tom. You’re right - the new xml feed for RSS readers like bloglines or feedburner is:
http://www.thisisthis.org/atom.xml
I have update that in the nav bar and now everything should work fine. It would be a huge favour if you could tell anyone else who is linking to the old site to update their links to the new one.
Cheers - Cliff