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Four Years of Blogging - happy birthday weblog.cemper.com

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Mon, 07/09/2007 - 12:59 — Christoph C. Cemper

oh my god, I’m so busy I completely forgot to announce the four year’s anniversary of weblog.cemper.com begin of June 2007 …

This blog was created in June 2003 when I really wanted to play around a bit with a blogging tool and became a PR6, then PR7 blog (for some years until Google re-scaled Pagerank)

I think I didn’t even mention the 3rd or 2nd year, as this is still a “playfield” for me and not my main business. But this blog was the basis for my business in online marketing, SEO and link building and so I think it really deserves a little “cheers”...

Funny thing is, when looking thru some of my ole posts I found that I posted a “WOW” besides the announcement for a 300 Gigabyte, 5400 rpm disk which seems to have an enormous size four years ago… LOL – how fast things change

BTW – I also fixed a ton of URL redirects and 404s which I missed when I migrated from Movable type to Drupal… well – checked 1000+ posts after a migration is just not possible :)

Note to myself – find a way to go thru blog, re-open comments on popular posts and remove junk/test posts to clean up the site a bit.

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Mon, 07/09/2007 - 15:03 — Douglas Karr (not verified)

Wow!

Four Years! That's fantastic, congratulations. I'm working on a year right now.

Mon, 07/09/2007 - 15:38 — Christoph C. Cemper
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indeed - ages!

Indeed – it’s fantastic to see how long I’m THAT active on the web…

Looking back in my life the last 4 years I’m really amazed about all the “big” things happend

  • got self-employed (one-man show)
  • served over 500 clients since with internet marketing services alone(!)
  • had a divorce
  • founded my company
  • started and finished my marketing and sales degree (that was actually the reason I started marketingfan
  • okok – still have oral finals start of september and correcting my thesis final pages now, do hand in next week, but I consider that DONE
  • found more friends, partners, clients and ventures online than in the past 15 years of my business life before
  • today I’m able to hire my best friends – those that I can really trust – to work with me … and that’s fun!
  • at last not least – apart from working like a dog and having a lot of fun, I’m also doing quite good financially :-)

There’s my german saying of being self-employed (which is called “selbstständig”)

Ich arbeite selbst und ständig

(working myself and always)

Gosh!

Even starting to visits those great SEO shows like San Jose, Vegas, New York is already 2 years ago and this year I add the DrupalCon to the show agenda…

nice to recap that…

christoph

Thu, 07/12/2007 - 21:24 — georg (not verified)

Happy belated b day!

Hi Christoph -

well done - keep on writing. Looks like that your (new) readers are to busy reading all the post from the last years instead of leaving some comments. Will check back in 44 years. See ya in Vegas. Life is good.

Georg

Sat, 07/14/2007 - 16:15 — Christoph C. Cemper
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remove old posts

Hi Georg,

this fact and some thoughts from Aaron Wall & co on conversing link juice (aka pagerank) made me think to remove some of old and no more relevant post (ie product announcements…)

One might think that Google has a clue that older content would become more irrelevant on blogs, but it’s the exact opposite… oldest posts get most traffic, so I think I have to “tweak” googles assumptions and redirect some of that traffic somewhere else

my only Q is – how to manage that without hassling around for hours…

I think I’ll start

  • with a nice bulk pagerank query (google doesnt like it, but forces me to) for all 1500+ pages here
  • evaluation of the pages’ value based on Pagerank, IBL (page that got links should remain unchanged)
  • bulk deletion/unpublishing

Then I just need to find a good way to redirect hits on 404 pages to somewhere else

cheers

c

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