I’m in a state of uncomfort as I migrate to this new blog that you’re now reading.

This transition is showing a pretty big comparison between the stats of my Blogspot Account and this new one. I’m going to run both at the same time to make the transition smoother (I saw some other bloggers do this) for about a week or two, then I’ll likely cut off the blogspot address. I care so much about my audience, that I’m doing everything I can for a smooth transition

I’m human and selfish, and do care about ego searches and rankings –that’s partly what makes bloggers so passionate. Major Loss.

• My greatest sadness is my loss in Google Page Rank –I was amazed at the search results rankings of topics that I blogged about such as Jeremiah, (3rd), Web Strategy (4th) I expended no dollars of SEM (Search Engine Marketing) budget to do this –just hard core blogging. (yes, rather than playing video games, or watch TV, I’ve turned all my non-work and family energy into blogging)
• My second sadness is my hard earned Technorati ranking, Currently my Blogspot blog is ranked at: 7,005 and after the larger storm over PayPerPost it will likely break the 7k mark by the weekend –Shel says this is a fast climb, considering I started just a few months ago. heh, we’ll im resetting the counters.

A few weeks ago, I offered to Web Analytics Superstars, Clint Ivy, and Avinash to have a ‘contest’ to both offer analysis on my web metrics of my blog. I’m under the impression that two different analyzers will produce two different reports and interpretation. For one reason or another, that never got kicked off.

In the spirit of transparency, here’s my stats from my other blog and this one, it’s quite a big gap.

Blogspot Blog Stats as of July 1st, 2006

• URL: http://jeremiahthewebprophet.blogspot.com/
• Since August 2005
• Technorati Rank: Rank: 7,005 (713 links from 255 sites)
• June 29-30th Google Analytics Stats
• Visits: 753
• Pageviews: 1,124

Wordpress Blog Stats as of July 1st, 2006 (This blog)

• URL: http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/
• Since June 2005
• Technorati Rank: Rank: 606,223 (15 links from 5 sites)
• June 29-30th Google Analytics Stats
• Visits: 162
• Pageviews: 622

I’ll post about this on an ongoing basis, my goal is to see how quickly I can get the numbers up to the same levels –I know it took Scoble a few months to recover from his hard cutover –I’ll try the casual transition method. –Changing the water a little bit at a time out of the fishtank.

Recommendations: If you’re going to get serious about blogging, get a domain right off the bat, this is something I regret doing.

Thanks for stopping by, you’re the reason I write.

Edit: Sunday Morning

• Most of my readers have moved over to this new blog, partly since I’ve been linking here and telling a few folks.
• Alan noticed an issue with Firefox displaying the feed icon, has anyone else seen that as an issue?
• I’m suspecting I’ll make the permanent cut over to here faster than first expected