DISQUS

A VC: Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder

  • dobata · 1 year ago
    just yesterday I spent 1/2 hour going through toluu and gReader to see where the feed of this blog disappeared
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    i am sorry about that. which feed had you subscribed to?
  • dobata · 1 year ago
    the main one, subscribed again and now everything seems to be working, I hope it stays that way ;-)
  • Rich · 1 year ago
    Fred,
    another potential factor: the my yahoo process changed. I read your posts via my yahoo - your blog has a box on my yahoo page, fed by your feed. When my yahoo redesigned they introduced a layered reader, i.e., if a user clicks on a link, a layer pops up called the my yahoo reader and the post can be read in it without having to visit A VC - I bet it doesn't count in your metrics. Not sure when all my yahoo users migrated to the new redesign, but I believe it happened at roughly the same time as your move from avc.blogs.com to avc.com
    Rich
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    I saw that my.yahoo popup quick read thing yesterday. As a publisher I hate it but as a reader I like it
  • Kevin Marshall · 1 year ago
    For what it's worth - we all still love ya'! I've been reading daily via google reader since Jan or so and haven't had any problems (just a small hiccup of 'test' posts while you were figuring out reblogging comments - but nothing that was a real problem).

    You keep hitting the content out of the park like you always do and readers will jump through fire to read it all...
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    I don't plan to inject fire between me and you all!
  • Chang · 1 year ago
    ...and I thought you were on a blog vacation for a month!
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    No you were just on vacation from me! I hope you enjoyed it
  • belieson · 1 year ago
    Nice sparklines!
  • andyswan · 1 year ago
    The other Fred Wilson is probably pretty pumped up about all of this....
  • Nathan Bowers · 1 year ago
    It turns out I broke your VC & Tech posts feed during the redesign. You had some custom RSS templates that I missed copying over when building the new design. Feedburner was still showing the old content so the breakage didn't become obvious until the feed got noticeably out of date.

    The VC & Tech feed is now fixed and updating. My apologies to Fred and everyone inconvenienced by the feed mixup.
  • Nathan Bowers · 1 year ago
    Re: the Google PageRank and 301 Redirects:

    Anyone who's had a typepad.com domain for a long time should know that they'll take a similar PageRank hit if they turn on TypePad's domain mapping to start using a custom URL.

    Domain Mapping *does not* preserve old incoming links by using redirects. Instead TypePad serves *both* yourdomain.com and yourdomain.typepad.com which doesn't transfer PageRank.
  • arvindraman · 1 year ago
    No worries Fred. I subscribe over email to your daily posts and read them first thing every morning :)
  • Philip Baddeley · 1 year ago
    This is a great lesson to us all and our companies. It would be good to have the lessons listed. I bet if you had been selling a product, you would have seen your dollar income decline rapidly! Good luck to Nathan.
  • Philip Baddeley · 1 year ago
    How did you get hold of avc.com?
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    I waited and waited for it to become available and then made them an offer
    they couldn't refuse when they stopped using it actively
  • Steve · 1 year ago
    It's your comment system. You've lost all the comment juice.
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    The value of the comments SEO pales in comparison to the value of the
    conversation
  • mike · 1 year ago
    when i stopped noticing the updates on my yahoo feed, i just switched to email alert. would be interesting to know if you got an uptick in people switching to email notofication.
  • Andrew of Mixergy.com · 1 year ago
    Welcome back to my life Fred!
  • fredwilson · 1 year ago
    I'm happy to be back