Last Updated Feb 28th, 2026
The export and import of site pages and posts was a disaster. None of the links were updated to the new site and the new site ran out of storage from the images.
For some reason all the reduced file size webp files were copied as jpg files instead, and they clogged everything up. So now half of the pictures are linked to fatwalletrefugee while the others are on kasanje travels. I am scrapping the entire plan.
I have more broadly decided to restructure this site around gaming alone. Kasanje Travels will become the new home of my travelog and food/cooking posts.
I have decided to archive my personal posts from Errant Literary as well as the Daily Prompt response posts. I am also throwing in the towel on the revival of the FatWallet Forums. The archive can still be downloaded from Payhip if you want it (https://payhip.com/b/Q7aAv).
I am also archiving and removing content in the following Categories: Investing, Sidehustles, Deals, News, Shopping, General, and Gold + Silver.
General posts directly related to gaming or site updates will remain in place.
A couple nights ago, I paid for a year of hosting through Host Koala for $24. I used a spare domain for the new site Kasanje Travel’s.
The service is inexpensive compared to my WordPress.com hosted site which I paid around $70 per year for 3 years on a sale.
Considerations
I was considering the new plug-in supported “.com” sites that went on sale last Christmas, but after looking at the monetization policies, I decided to go with an independent service.
If I want to use a 3rd party advertising service, I would need to upgrade to the Creator plan, which is much more expensive.
There are no such limitations on a “.org” installation of WordPress.
I will be copying and pasting the older posts over and then eventually posting new content to the other site.
Hopefully, with a focused niche, the travel site will get traffic and the slimmer main site will rank better in Google’s eyes.
Site History
Over the years I have continued to add new stuff to the site, often far afield of my primary niche.
This site originally was a travel blog. After my travels ended, I struggled to find something new to write about. I eventually settled on game guides.
That was a hard pivot, though at the time I didn’t have any understanding of SEO or how the search engines worked.
I later moved to game galleries which ate up all my storage space. I made a new site, then lost interest. It was fine, the galleries were perennial and drove high traffic with little input on my part.
But all that traffic was no longer going to my main site and I returned to the struggle.
My next decision was to monetize this site and then merge the galleries back into FatwalletRefugee.
That worked, until I encountered a crisis of conscience and purged the site, bringing it back to a family friendly place.
Now, I am once again struggling to drive traffic to the site, and while I have added several new wiki’s, it’s not yet made up for prior losses.
The main problem is that my content is too spread out. The site’s niche remains gaming related, but all the other content is mucking up my page rankings.
I get little to no traffic to the Travel and Food pages or to the FatWallet Forums Archive project. Google won’t organically index those pages because they fall outside of my niche.
So, my new strategy will be to slim down this beastly site and make new home for the food and travel aspects.
FWR 