Dreamquick - 4:04 pm on Jan 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Did you change to blogs because you thought they suited the style of your site or because you thought they'd give you an advantage in optimising your site?

Sorry if it's an odd question but I'm just trying to get my head around how a blog would work as a main site ... the only way I can think of it working is for a content site but I know (from trying to maintain my own content site) that there are frequently moments where I need to do something that I probably wouldn't find easy to do in a rigid CMS such as a blog.

I'm assuming that the page templates the blog s/w uses lend themselves to optimising rather than being the typical bloated pages that just happen to look good.

The only other generic thing I can think of is did you redirect traffic from the old pages to the new blog-format pages or just leave the old pages as 404s?

Anyway, without getting a little more background on what you were trying to do with this idea it's hard to say if/why it may have caused problems - it could just be the nature of pagerank and algos that's seen your site drop.

- Tony