I've been using Wordpress for about 6 months on this blog. I think the decision to move from blogspot to a self-hosted Wordpress set up was the right one - I wish I had done it earlier (or not used blogspot at all).

As longer term readers will remember, I originally started blogging on the official osCommerce site - when that went pear-shaped, I set up on blogspot and used that for 9 months. When blogspot started playing up, I decide to make the move to Wordpress…

So, what of the last 6 months?

It took a good 4 months before I saw any search engine traffic to osworld.biz - there is no way to place a 301 redirect on blogspot pages, so this did not help.

Feedburner subscriber numbers are hovering at about 100 subscribers - surely there are not that many interested in my diatribes

Alexa Rankings (I know they are useless) have climbed steadily and is now hovering at about 50,000. I read somewhere that having an Alexa Button on each page in the site can help with this, I am sure it does not affect ranking, so have placed a button for a month to see if there is any upward trend.
Technorati is likewise, hovering at about 50,000.

I believe that WP is much easier for the reader to deal with than BS is - case in point is the very restrictive nature of what can and cannot be done with the layout of Blogspot. As an example, I wanted to show the latest comments on Blogspot, but couldn't work out how to do it. With WP, it was a very simple addition.

It did take me some time to get used to the Admin Area of WP - it is quite complicated in my opinion, particularly when dealing with plugins. But, I think I have that mastered now.

In recent months, I've asked Dave and Oli to join me on this blog - as these two complement my own posting (and working) style. I hope you've enjoyed their input as much as I have.

Here's to the next 6 months