Matt remembered the birth of what turned into WordPress was just over 1 year ago. We have come a long way.
Matt,
If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Perhaps a post to the B2 forum, suggesting a fork would be a good starting point.
Comment by mike — Saturday January 25, 2003 @ 3:58 pm
Just as I suspected, it appears I have dropped off the face of Google. As Paul points out, I am not even in the top 100 Mike’s according to Google. In fact I am not in the top 900.
I am also down to the number 3 ‘Mike Little’ from a 20-month run at number 1. I’m sure that too will soon disappear.
Why has this happened? Because I changed my URI. And whilst Google is happy to now crawl the new URI’s (permanent re-directs are the answer), the majority of links in to the site are still at the old address. So, if you do have a link to my site which is still the old http://zed1.com/b2, please update it to the all new https://journalized.zed1.com URI.
It looks like the site was down for a couple of hours earlier. 🙁 Sorry about that.
It’s back now… which you know because you are reading this!
I think I’ve now managed to implement the new URIs throughout the journal. I’ve just finished the full archives and blog stats pages.
I’ve seen that some of the new ones have started to appear in Google search results. I also noticed that the new page has no page ranking at all. Not even 1 out of 10. 🙁
It’s done!
I’ve upgraded to WordPress 1.0.1. At the same time I’ve removed the ‘b2’ from the URI. The official URI for this journal is now https://journalized.zed1.com . Please update your links, bookmarks, favourites, and blogrolls. Everything should get redirected automatically but if you see any errors, please leave a comment.
Everything seems to be about 20 times faster at the moment. I’m not sure whether that’s because I am using WordPress’ mod_rewite-based cruft-free URIs (as opposed to PHP parsing of the URI) or because I’m running off a new copied database (DB performance seemed to be a big factor previously).
After reading of Matt‘s success at getting to be the #3 Matt in the world, I thought I’d better check my ranking.
I’d not checked for a while (and it was Matt who made me check in the first place); when I first checked I gave up looking after page 20 of Google’s search results meaning I wasn’t in the top 200. A while ago I’d made it to number 14.
Today I am the number two ‘mike’ in all the world according to Google (that is the whole world isn’t it?). Number 2 out of about 20 million! Pretty impressive.
And just for fun when I upgrade to WordPress 1.0.1 I’ll be changing my URL! Only slightly, but it should be enough to completely break my Google standing!
Let’s hope the very comprehensive redirect script at the old location will help.
Update: I’m also number 1 ‘mike’ on MSN (out of 12 million)
