Sep 26, 2007 by Matt | Posted in General
Seeing as this is the 200th blog post on Webmaster-Source, I’m going to take this opportunity to fill you in on a little of WSC’s history.
I bought the domain www.webmaster-source.com about a year and a half ago, and put up a static website that consisted mainly of lists of links to other web-related websites (unsurprisingly, I’ve never had great PageRank 
). Because of the difficulty of updating the site, there weren’t many new things added until June 2 2007. About a week prior to the second, I decided to turn WSC into a blog, as I’d gotten into blogging six months previously, and I wanted to make better use of the domain. So I started wok on a new design, and I started importing all of my old content into WordPress. By the second, I had everything up and ready.
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