How do you "forward" a blog?

[SageSound]

I have a blog that was up on a subdomain for quite a while. The server crashed and I didn't get all of the files needed to restore it.

Basically, I want to set up a new blog, but not on a subdomain.

But there are lots of backlinks and traffic coming to the old blog. Not much of any value, as it seemed to attract more than its share of people just trying to post comment spam. So I'm not sure exactly what to do.

(I might be able to get hold of the missing files as soon as I get hold of the hard drive, then reproduce the blog, but I'm not even sure I want to do that.)

Any suggestions?

-David

[Rezbi]

If you can keep the old blog you could stick a link on it to the new one.

Also, if there's a lot of spam, did you set up akismet to delete them after a month?

[SageSound]

Originally Posted by Rezbi

If you can keep the old blog you could stick a link on it to the new one.

Also, if there's a lot of spam, did you set up akismet to delete them after a month?

Every page would need a link.

I used something other than Akismet that totally blocks comment spam posting tools. But last I checked, it was pushing 10,000 spams blocked. That's a LOT considering there's virtually no other activity on the blog.

I was examining the logs, and it hardly got any visitors who were actually reading anything. Or, at least, they were swamped-out by all of the comment spam visits.

So I'm not terribly excited by the thought of forwarding all of those spammers to my new blog, if you get my drift.

-David