A VC - Latest Comments in Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder

Re: Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder

fredwilson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:56:15 -0000

I'm happy to be back

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Andrew of Mixergy.com — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:35:53 -0000

Welcome back to my life Fred!

Re: Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder

fredwilson — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:08:09 -0000

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

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mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:42:21 -0000

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.

Re: Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder

fredwilson — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:30:09 -0000

The value of the comments SEO pales in comparison to the value of the
conversation

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Steve — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:51:24 -0000

It's your comment system. You've lost all the comment juice.

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Philip Baddeley — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:18:40 -0000

How did you get hold of avc.com?

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Philip Baddeley — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:16:53 -0000

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.

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arvindraman — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:58:06 -0000

No worries Fred. I subscribe over email to your daily posts and read them first thing every morning :)

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Nate — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:22:51 -0000

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.

Re: Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder

Nate — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:04:34 -0000

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.

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andyswan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:33:35 -0000

The other Fred Wilson is probably pretty pumped up about all of this....

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belieson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:32:07 -0000

Nice sparklines!

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fredwilson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:39:17 -0000

No you were just on vacation from me! I hope you enjoyed it

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fredwilson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:19:11 -0000

I don't plan to inject fire between me and you all!

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fredwilson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:18:13 -0000

I saw that my.yahoo popup quick read thing yesterday. As a publisher I hate it but as a reader I like it

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Chang — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:13:49 -0000

...and I thought you were on a blog vacation for a month!

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falicon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:10:02 -0000

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...

Re: Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder

Rich — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:09:43 -0000

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

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dobata — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:52:36 -0000

the main one, subscribed again and now everything seems to be working, I hope it stays that way ;-)

Re: Getting To This Blog Has Gotten Harder

fredwilson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:33:44 -0000

i am sorry about that. which feed had you subscribed to?

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dobata — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:56:43 -0000

just yesterday I spent 1/2 hour going through toluu and gReader to see where the feed of this blog disappeared