Man, I had a real scare today. I had been wondering over the past couple of days why I had not been getting any comments on any of my blogs. My busy schedule did not allow me to dig in and look for it, but then Mark was kind enough to email me and asked why his comments had not been making it on this blog. This freaked me out.

I started to do a bit of research, and ultimately found the problem. Last week I updated the .htaccess file for The Running Guy, The Dividend Guy, and this site to do a 301-redirect from, for example http://theinternetcashflowguy.com to http://www.theinternetcashflowguy.com. My research showed that this potentially had a better impact on SEO.

However, within Wordpress there is are two settings under the options tab for:

1. WordPress address (URI):
2. Blog address (URI):

Both these settings were still set to point to the non-www links, and ultimately were not being redirected to the correct comments section in some of the php code for the site. When a user went to submit a comment, all they saw was a blank screen and the comments never hit the database. As soon as I pointed these settings to the www versions of the address, everything worked fine. Whew!!

What is the morale of the story here - test, test, and re-test. Test everything. Resist the urge to do too much tinkering with your site, unless you are willing to put up with some unintended consequences.