Lifting the MyBlogLog Curse

It was a frustrating several days that I wrestled with the MyBlogLog curse. It was making my site 100 Fiddle Tunes load very slowly. It took a minute and a half just to see the page. Then, if you wanted to see another, same wait.

I’ve done a fair amount of SEO work and content creation just to finally reach the first page of Google for “fiddle tune.” But, all that work would be useless if the site loads so slowly people just click away some where else.

The back story is this. I joined a social networking site for bloggers called, My Blog Log. (No link. It’s dead, Jim.) At some point, when I wasn’t paying attention, two things happened. The site was purchased by Yahoo. They chose to close it down.

That left a piece of code somewhere on my site that went looking for My Blog Log, but couldn’t find it.

I first deactivated all the plug-ins. No help. I appealed to the man I look to for help. His comment about the header did not register. Being slightly code-impaired, I can miss the obvious.

When I went to look for a solution on Google I entered the search term, “remove mybloglog.” That lead immediately to the answer. How to Remove MyBlogLog from your WP Blog.

The instructions are so easy to follow I did the implementation right away. Very little coding skill required. Finally, the MyBlogLog curse was lifted. My site now loaded normally.

Thanks go to Paul Left for his help.

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