[sally]

My new style blog isn't working. I incorporated posts about rural issues onto my dating blog to try to bring in farming people but for directory submission, seo, etc it is a bloody nightmare.

So I want to separate them out and double my workload (because I have nothing else to do!!).

So some questions please:

1. Do I have to sign up to wordpress again to open a second account?

2. How do I move my 'rural' posts across but let the search engines know they still exist (ie can I point to them in the new blog).

3. Will I get done for duplicate content and is there a way to keep the dates of the posts in the new blog.

4. Can I change the name of the current one to mydomain/dating blog from mydomain/blog or will the engines think this is a new blog?

5. Should I just delete the rural posts and start again with the new blog (the rural posts are only a couple of weeks old and I can rewrite them so they hopefully don't look the same to the search engines).

I would really appreciate some help understanding all this, I have worked very hard on the blog but have got myself in a bit of a pickle and not sure how to get out of it.

If you have read many of my posts you will know I am officially A1's dunce when it comes to computer technology - so simple answers please.

[andysv1k]

I probably cant help you much at all Sally, i downloaded and installed wordpress for the first time last night.

What a great bit of software though!

within a couple of hours i have it all installed, gone through several million themes! and even put a load of content in!

Its definately the quickest ive ever had a live website up and going!

Andy.

[sally]

Good luck with it Andy.

May I suggest you bookmark this blog post for when you need to upgrade. I just had a 3 day nightmare trying to do it but this post is the idiots guide and managed to get me through ok

http://intricateart.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-wordpress/

[andysv1k]

I'll try to help with some of your points...

Originally Posted by sally

My new style blog isn't working. I incorporated posts about rural issues onto my dating blog to try to bring in farming people but for directory submission, seo, etc it is a bloody nightmare.

So I want to separate them out and double my workload (because I have nothing else to do!!).

So some questions please:

1. Do I have to sign up to wordpress again to open a second account?

You should be able to install as many versions of WP as you like, as long as you can set-up databases on your hosting account, or are you hosting with WP too?

2. How do I move my 'rural' posts across but let the search engines know they still exist (ie can I point to them in the new blog).

Not sure about the search engines, they will pick up the moved content but not sure how quickly, there is an export function on WP, maybe that can be used to move your posts (ive not looked at it though so dont trust me!)

3. Will I get done for duplicate content and is there a way to keep the dates of the posts in the new blog.

You can manually alter dates of posts, but you may have to do it all manually.

4. Can I change the name of the current one to mydomain/dating blog from mydomain/blog or will the engines think this is a new blog?

5. Should I just delete the rural posts and start again with the new blog (the rural posts are only a couple of weeks old and I can rewrite them so they hopefully don't look the same to the search engines).


I would really appreciate some help understanding all this, I have worked very hard on the blog but have got myself in a bit of a pickle and not sure how to get out of it.

If you have read many of my posts you will know I am officially A1's dunce when it comes to computer technology - so simple answers please.

[sally]

Can anyone offer any advise on these issues. If not I may have to play and we know where that gets me

[sally]

I thought as it was the weekend and people have a bit more time I would try this one again and see if anyone can advise. Pretty please with cherries on top.