Well, blog friends, I was so hungry for my dinner tonight that I forgot to take a picture for you. I can assure you, though, it was delicious.
Tonight for dinner, Scott made me 2 grilled cheese sandwiches (with ooey, gooey Velveeta cheese) and tomato soup. It was seriously so good. He wouldn’t tell me what he put in the tomato soup, but he made it a bit spicy. Mmmm. The thought is helping to keep me warm…except for my feet. They’re freezing.
In other news, I am considering moving my blog from WordPress to Blogspot. So many other fabulous blogs I read are based from these hosts. One of the other reasons I am considering this is because I was looking into the idea of getting sponsors. I set everything up with Passionfruitads.com, because it says it will work with WordPress. After doing that, I discover that WordPress doesn’t allow advertisements from 3rd party, blah blah blah somethingorother.
I need your help because I have some concerns. Here are my concerns AND my reasons WHY I would like to move.
1. I don’t want to sound like I’m begging, but moving my blog would be a lot of work. I probably wouldn’t move my “random thoughts” like my link-up posts, but I would be moving all of my recipes over. SO if I do this on the basis of having sponsors, do I have any readers out there who would be willing to sponsor Rebeckann’s Random Thoughts & Recipes??
2. Readers I sponsor (*ahem* Kim, Tarole, & Ashley) would it be difficult to change my button on your pages so it directs people to my new blog address?? (Speaking of the awesome ladies I sponsor, you should go link up with them for “My Harry Potter Fix”!)
3. To follow a blog on WordPress, I need to add your blog’s link to my list. HOWEVER, WordPress seems to think I don’t need to see all the posts from blogs I follow all the time or something. For example, I will see that Kristin from Kristin’s kNook wrote a new post from my Twitter feed, but when I log in to WordPress, it’s not there. So I have to go to “edit” my list and click on the link to her blog from there. Sometimes, this causes me to miss posts. ANNOYING.
4. WordPress makes it EXTREMELY difficult to know how many followers you have. It counts people who come to your blog from the link on my Facebook page or Twitter. It counts the people who actually have subscribed through e-mail. WordPress, I’m not trying to be modest, but I reeeeaaalllly don’t think I have 400+ followers, when some of my amazing blog friends don’t have that many. But thanks.
There are probably more things, but they’re not coming to mind right now.
Please let me know your thoughts! I’d love to hear what you have to say.
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Arin made me dinner last night, and he also made me grilled cheese with tomato soup… he didn’t add anything fancy but I was just glad that I wasn’t cooking! LOL : )
I don’t mind cooking, but I really love it when I don’t have to!
Must be the right weather for grilled cheese and tomato soup! 
I fully recommend Blogger just because it’s easy. I know there’s a major movement TO WordPress among the blogs I follow, but unless someone is willing to do it for me, I’m not messing with it.
Your blog posts pop up on my Dashboard in Blogger (I rarely use Google Reader). Do you have a Dashboard? I’ve never even seen what the WP format looks like.
Also, when it comes to sponsoring, I’d wait until your sponsorship runs out and then send them new stuff. Like, create it now, have it ready, and then just let the old stuff run out. At least then you get your money’s worth.
Small advice from someone who knows very little about this stuff
P.S. Grilled cheese sounds good, but I don’t even have bread. #fail
Worpress does have a Dashboard, but they’ve also changed around the format, and I think it’s even harder to navigate. When I log in, it usually takes me straight to my “Reader” page. This is where it’s SUPPOSED to display all of the posts from the blogs I follow. For some reason, it doesn’t always like to show me yours. I know you post almost every day, so when I don’t see one, I always make sure I go to my list and click on your blog!
I appreciate your advice!
P.S. Go get some bread!
I made the move from WordPress to Blogger in October – I SO know what you’re going through right now!! First let me say this – I have NEVER looked back since making the move, and I was really nervous about doing it at first. The good thing is that all of my old posts are still THERE if I want to link back to them (and I sometimes do), as are all of the images that I used in those posts. It would be pretty easy for us to change our ads in Passionfruit, I think – I’ve never done it but I’m sure it’s possible! I say that if you’re considering making the move, you should totally do it. It’s been the best thing I could have ever done in terms of blogging. Hope that helps, hun!
Thank you, Kim!!
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