Not moving to my own domain at the right time is not the only blogging mistake I made. When I did move to my own domain, I made the mistake of installing WordPress in the gauravonomics.com/blog directory instead of the root directory.
This is a bad idea because it means that my homepage is duplicated at gauravonomics.com and gauravonomics.com/blog. Search engines and Technorati consider these two as separate blogs and therefore my Google Pagerank and Technorati ranking are adversely affected.
Daniel from Daily Blog Tips had made the same mistake when he set up his blog, but corrected it within a few months.
Taking Daniel’s lead, I decided to move WordPress to the root directory last night. However, something went wrong and my blog was down for most of the night. I tried everything Ajay and I could think of, but it just didn’t work! I haven’t had a more frustrating night ever! In the end, in the wee hours of the morning, I decided to abandon the operation and revert to my backups.
The silver lining? I recovered everything on my own and that’s a big thing for the novice blogger that I am. Also, it seems that I have only lost the few comments that were made after I backup up my database and everything else is working as before. A big thanks to everybody who e-mailed me to tell me that my blog was displaying errors. If you see that something is still broken, do let me know.
So, does it mean that I’ll stay with gauravonomics.com/blog? Well, now that the bug is in my head, I’ll not be satisfied until I have either moved WordPress to the root directory or done something else with the root directory itself. Any ideas?
Another blogging mistake you must not make – write a guest post for a much more popular blogger, get linked on DesiPundit and participate in a collaborative blogging project on the same day and then take your blog down the very same day by trying to do something over-ambitious on the back-end. 
