This is insane. I haven’t updated Chellberg.WordPress.com in a week. My last update stated that it was moving here. I’ve submitted Slaxxor.com to all the major search engines, and its content is the same or newer than Chellberg.WordPress.com, and yet Chellberg.WordPress.com got like a hundred times more traffic than Slaxxor.com. I don’t know if it’s a bug in the stats plugin or what, but Slaxxor has registered 15 total hits in the last five days and Chellberg.WordPress.com has registered close to 50. If this remains the case after a few more days, I might find a different use for Slaxxor.com and keep my blog at WordPress.

WordPress.com evidently does a great job promoting their blogs, since my WordPress is consistently higher in Google search results than Slaxxor even though the posts are identicle. Just to clarify, I use WordPress software on Slaxxor.com as well. I like having my own domain, mainly because I really like the name and because I can upload my own plugins and themes, something you can’t do on WordPress.com. I’m in a dilemma, I guess. Traffic vs. Control. Epic battle, no? I like having traffic, I really do, so I may just have to keep it here and make Slaxxor.com more of a public blog, with multiple submitters and editors. That might improve traffic over there too. Or I could set up a php page for Slaxxors (see What is a Slaxxor?) with forums and stuff… Who knows. Anybody got any suggestions? Please?

Just to maintain the test, I’m going to delete the “We’re Moving” post from my WordPress and update it with my latest posts to see if it really is kicking Slaxxor’s ass.