The Recovering Choir Director

About two weeks ago I moved this blog to WordPress without regard for the consequences. I wanted to get myself rid of the useless accretions of comment and trackback spam that accumulated and overwhelmed the earlier Movable Type-based version.

I rid the databases of the aforementioned spam and populated the new Wordpress databases with my posts and readers’ comments and trackbacks. Afterwards, I searched for, found, and installed a theme that appealed to me. All was wonderful, until I deleted the static pages of the old blog that Movable Type generated.

Oops.

In this blog’s dormant state, fewer people have read this blog regularly; however, the static pages and URLs have become fixtures in search engines’ caches. Once those pages were deleted, the links to many relevant articles were severed.

It will take some time for the bots from Google, Yahoo, and the rest to update their databases and caches, but what about those sites that referred to old URLs? They’ll be going to the land of 404.

But don’t worry; once those links have been detected, they will be fixed, one by one.