As I mentioned in the last post one of the ways I had thought of to make this whole thing work was to create a brand new movie site – call it The Midnight Movie Cafe – and keep the old site private where I would still share music links.
As I also mentioned the trouble with this is that The Midnight Cafe has a certain amount of cache. It is a known site. It has been indexed by search engines. Every day people discover the site through Google Searches or because some other site has linked to me.
A movie site needs that Google juice. I want people to discover those writings. Now I know I’ll never get rich talking about movies, I’ll never make any kind of real money through it at all. But I hope I can continue to grow it a little bit and get a small following.
But the music site doesn’t need any sort of cache. I don’t want people discovering it through search. It should be anonymous.
So, I’ve decided to switch it around – the new site, call it The Midnight Music Cafe, will be dedicated to ROIO sharing and it will remain private. The old site will be all about movies and pop culture and everything else that floats my boat besides ROIOs.
Unfortunately, this does mean a lot of extra work for me. There is a large collection of music posts that I need to transfer to the new site. Luckily I discovered that I can export posts from the old blog and import them to the new blog fairly easily. The site is too big to do that all at once, but I can do it by artist.
Even so, when I import them I need to go through them to make sure everything came out alright. And then on the old site, I need to make each post private so that when I make the entire site public those posts will not be viewable to anybody.
It also means that you all will have to register to view my new site and sign up for the e-mails. You’ll need your WordPress login to do that. So if you have not registered for a free WordPress account I recommend doing so now. If you do not I think you can still sign up for the e-mails, but I’ll have to figure out how that works.
It also means that if you are already subscribed to The Midnight Cafe and you do not like my movie reviews, you’ll have to figure out how to unsubcribe.
I am not ready to open the new site up just yet. I don’t know that I’ll get everything moved over before I open it up, but it still needs quite a bit of work before I let you all in.
Naturally, while I do all of this I will not be uploading new shows. So please be patient and I hope you look forward to the new site.
themidnightcafe.org 
So we are not supposed to do anything at this point if we want to continue to be able to go to the music site?
That is correct. When I am ready to start the new site I will let you know.
Thanks for all your hard work
Indeed — Big thanks for everything. Do disclose the link to the new movie site, it seems we have similar tastes, although I’ve been slumming all recently with my “summer of Statham.” (Honestly, I can’t think of another male movie star who arrived bald. Been looking at everything.)
The movie site will remain this one (themidnightcafe.org) it is the music site that will get a new URL. I’m honestly not sure if I’ve ever seen a Jason Statham movie. No judgement from me on you watching them as I certainly watch plenty of questionable films, but his brand of action film just never seems up my alley.
Thanks for the great communication and all you do Mat! Good luck moving forward and can’t wait to see the new site!
So this will become the Midnight Movie Cafe, right? And we will automatically remain subscribed to it. This is great, because I, for one, find your movie posts very informative and look forward to continue receiving them.
And then, we will need to register to your new site, the Midnight Music Cafe, where we will find all the music posts which were previously here. It’s easy for us to do this, but such a huge amount of work for you! Thank you so much!
That’s a LOT of work my friend! Good luck with everything, and I look forward to delving into both great sistes!
your time and effort in spreading music far and wide is highly appreciated. will keep eye out for email for info on how to register for the new music site.
as Bob Marley sings:
One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain
Mat in advance thank you for all your hard work for keeping you music and blogs up and running we as readers DO APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK.
from Texas
Thanks for doing what you do Mat, it is appreciated.
Thanks Mat. I love your site, and your taste in music and cinema. Look forward to many more sucessful and fun years. Tim from Dayton, Ohio
So What Happens now? Really loved the Dead Shows I guess that’s it for the other one Matt if you can read this and God I hope so I’m no expert at this but if you want my opinion you should have left it the way it was I think by making whatever changes you deemed necessary if you ask me I think you walked into a big bear trap far as being spooked with all these snags and whatever catch my drift I really depended on those emails you sent out for downloading and I would be more than honard to donate but I’m on a fixed income and can’t do much about it please let me know if you can still send links for shows sure others like to Good Luck with this and Godspeed
Thanks for all you so generously share here, and for keeping us in the loop as you make these adjustments. Your site rocks and I appreciate all you do!
Bro…your crazy. 😂 Your so much like me. I just can’t stop tinkering till I get things just the way I want. I think your plan will work out great. And look on the bright side…you can review all your old posts.
Good Luck & No Rush (thanks to you we all have enough music for a lifetime)
That’s very true. Sometimes I get tired of running this site and I think I should just quit. But then an hour later I’m coming up with bit plans for it 🙂
Strange, I don’t receive emails with music links anymore. What did I do wrong? How can I subscribe again? Thanks for all your hard work. Thanks for your answer. Luc De Vos alias BobTillYouDrop.