WordPress.com Forums » User Favorites: callmesmiler http://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/ WordPress.com Forums » User Favorites: callmesmiler en Sun, 19 May 2013 02:18:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 callmesmiler on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1164380 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:41:00 +0000 callmesmiler 1164380@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Urgh! The link didn't show up above. Here it is: support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/

]]> callmesmiler on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1164376 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:39:51 +0000 callmesmiler 1164376@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Shannon, I just realized my request was different than yours. I hadn't noticed you were asking how to post your IG feed to the sidebar specifically—I'm trying on the contrary to post them in the main body of the blog, because I've already got the sidebar thing going via the Flickr feed widget, as rainscoaster suggestest, and it works just great.

I think I did find a solution for my request, which was how to create WP posts from my IG feed, though I haven't tried this yet: when you post your photos to Instagram, there is an option to send the photo/caption via email in the "Share" settings, and as you may or may not know, WP offers a "post by email" option.

Here is a useful link:

I will try this out probably later today and report back once I've done so!

]]> theeggsinmybasket on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1164352 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:21:40 +0000 theeggsinmybasket 1164352@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, that's because I'm not posting to that blog, but I'd rather not say which I am posting to because it's not ready yet.
What I would say is that http://www.iftt.com is not intuitive, it took me several goes to work out how to use it! They don't provide any explanation of what triggers are for example. I don't know if this will work but here is the recipe. https://ifttt.com/myrecipes/personal/2860904

]]> raincoaster on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1164228 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:09:23 +0000 raincoaster 1164228@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Really? That's interesting. Autoposting is supposed to be disabled here. I didn't see any images on http://theeggsinmybasket.wordpress.com/ at all.

]]> theeggsinmybasket on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1164174 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:33:03 +0000 theeggsinmybasket 1164174@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ it does work at wordpress.com because that's what my blog is. When I tried the Flickr widget, that didn't work.

]]> raincoaster on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1164164 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:27:35 +0000 raincoaster 1164164@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And that doesn't work at WordPress.com.

What does work here is putting the instagram feed into the Flickr widget.

]]> theeggsinmybasket on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1164119 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:55:15 +0000 theeggsinmybasket 1164119@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I can't work out how to get them in the sidebar, but I did create a recipe with https://ifttt.com/recipes which automatically turns each instagram I make into a new post, in my category which I created especially called My Instagram feed. It's not the sidebar but it's better than nothing.

]]> callmesmiler on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1163451 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:55:13 +0000 callmesmiler 1163451@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'd like to do the same! I've been obsessed with IG since I joined a couple of months ago and my blogs have been suffering from neglect ever since, please help!

I have 2 blogs, and will have to decide which one to feed with my pics. They are:

fromsmilerwithlove.com
createthreesixty5.com

]]> shannony on "Instagram feed" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/instagram-feed-1#post-1152103 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:23:06 +0000 shannony 1152103@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,
I am trying to add my instagram feed to my blog stylebylolly.com. I want my latest instagram pictures from my feed to show up on the sidebar.

Thanks!
Shannon Yoachum

]]> timethief on "Google Page Rank When Transferring Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-page-rank-when-transferring-blogs#post-456646 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:05:28 +0000 timethief 456646@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

, I'm wondering how Google will treat my former blog if I don't actually delete it.

When we purchase domain mapping we longer have a need to keep the old blog open and if we do then we are running the risk of being seen by Google as creating duplicate content. Duplicate content can result in Google penalties. After 72 hours have expired and the domain mapping is complete the best course of action is to change the root blog (original) blog visibility to "private".

]]> callmesmiler on "Google Page Rank When Transferring Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-page-rank-when-transferring-blogs#post-456643 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:56:16 +0000 callmesmiler 456643@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Great—I guess—at least now I know for sure. Thanks for your feedback guys (and gals)

In another related question, I'm wondering how Google will treat my former blog if I don't actually delete it. I've seen a lot of bloggers keep their old Blogger sites going to redirect traffic. I guess I also have a hard time cutting ties with the old blog (after all this time & effort, hard not to feel attached, and never mind that I finally had the template looking the way I wanted it to!). I'm just concerned as to whether it will still be considered as a "mirror-site" (insert whatever appropriate term it's supposed to be!) i.e. I want to be sure not to have duplicate content. With over 1,000 posts, that's a lot of material to delete!

I'll redirect traffic as of now, but your input on this is much appreciated as well. Also please let me know if I should have started a new question thread... as you know I'm new to WP and this forum so not sure how things work yet. All this feels like such a big learning curve all over again—very humbling, that's for sure! :-)

]]> sandrapawula on "Google Page Rank When Transferring Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-page-rank-when-transferring-blogs#post-456529 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:21:37 +0000 sandrapawula 456529@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I second that notion. I've gotten more traffic on WordPress than Blogger that's for sure. Good luck!

]]> raincoaster on "Google Page Rank When Transferring Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-page-rank-when-transferring-blogs#post-456520 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:15:13 +0000 raincoaster 456520@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Don't worry: whatever your PR at Blogger, you're probably going to beat it pretty fast with a WP.com blog, especially if you follow the suggestions here:

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/first-blogplease-dont-sigh-in-dismay?replies=5

]]> timethief on "Google Page Rank When Transferring Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-page-rank-when-transferring-blogs#post-456519 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:11:23 +0000 timethief 456519@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ PageRank is not transferable. The backlinks and PageRank earned by the root blog belong to the root blog URL. The new domain URL starts from zero just as raincoaster said.

We purchase domain mapping to preserve a smooth transition for readers and no loss in traffic from search engines. What domain mapping is is a service to transfer your readers seamlessly between the root blog URls to the new domain URLs.

]]> callmesmiler on "Google Page Rank When Transferring Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-page-rank-when-transferring-blogs#post-456511 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:50:10 +0000 callmesmiler 456511@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I had myblogname.blogspot.com and now used the domain mapping upgrade with sameblogname.com

I'm really hoping there's something I can do about this. It's one of the big reasons I had been resisting to make the switch but I just don't feel safe at Blogger as a close family recently had her perfectly respectable G-rated blog removed one day with no explanation and no apologies.

]]> raincoaster on "Google Page Rank When Transferring Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-page-rank-when-transferring-blogs#post-456507 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:45:43 +0000 raincoaster 456507@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You have no choice but to start from scratch, UNLESS you had a unique URL over at Blogspot and you've attached that unique URL to your WordPress.com blog via the Domain Mapping upgrade. I mean something like whatever.com. Because the pagerank goes with the URL.

]]> callmesmiler on "Google Page Rank When Transferring Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-page-rank-when-transferring-blogs#post-456506 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:44:12 +0000 callmesmiler 456506@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I decided to switch over to WordPress recently and I've been able to import all of my former Blogger blog posts and comments without any difficulty, but haven't yet shut down the original blog nor redirected traffic because I have no clue how to deal with my Google page ranking. I understand it's a bad idea to have the same content posted on two sites, and that I could be penalized for this, but this is only a temporary situation until I figure out if there's any way I can preserve my page ranking which took me 5 years to build up (assuming I haven't already been penalized). I should add that I now use the same blog name, but under my own domain. I'm sure others have been faced with the same issue.

Any helpful suggestions on how I can retain that page ranking now that I'm on WP or do I have no choice but to start from scratch?

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