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Hi,

Adding an active blog, one that receives interaction (real comments, links, etc) will certainly help your new site in a number of ways.

Make sure you create URL's on the new site that match your old blog.

For example

www.oldblog.com/newworldpinotnoirvsoldworld.

Should 301 redirect to

newsite.com/blog/newworldpinotnoirvsoldworld.

and not to the new sites blog homepage.

This will replace rankings for the old site with the new one. It will also introduce your current blog audience to your new site, among other things.

I would recommend warning readers that the change is going to take place at least a few weeks before so you don't put people off when they are suddenly redirected to a new site. On site notes or even an email would be nice.

Hope that helps.

Kyle.

If people have javascript turned off then they don't trigger a view so no goal is registered.

There could be other reasons. Check your funnel, namely the page before the Goal conversion page and view navigation summary (content >site content >all pages then search for the page url). Check to see if everyone is going to the URL that your using for the goal and not a strange variation generated by your site. If there is a variation  include it in the goal and make sure analytics is installed on it.

Edit: I've also seen cases when orders are processed through the website over the phone by a representative but the I.P address of the office is blocked. So you see the sale as online but that isn't tracked in analytics because of the I.P block. In those cases I would suggest setting up a new profile with a filter to include that I.P only or one to not exclude internal traffic.

Hope that helps

Kyle