Gotta Love Weebly - Switching to My Own Domain Was Painless and Transparent
I wasn't sure how committed I was to this whole writing and blog thing, so Weebly was perfect because I could set up my new site as a sub-domain of weebly.
com for free.
And as I mentioned in a previous post, Weebly allows you to have both web pages and blog pages in the same domain and landing page.
This allowed flexibility to an uncommitted person like me.
So I have the blogs now and they seem to be getting some traffic.
But then I found that three of my informational, kind of how-to, articles were approved for being published by EzineArticles popular site.
This could potentially lead to traffic coming back to my site if Ezine readers are curious and link to my homepage URL at the bottom of the article.
So now I was a little more certain that I wanted to have my own domain, just because it looks better, and I can take it with me if I ever move away from Weebly (but why would I, it meets all my needs so far).
Nevertheless, it looks more like I'm serious about what I'm doing (does that mean I'll have to get serious about it?) So I took the opportunity to choose a new domain for myself.
This not only accomplishes what I talked about above, it helped me define my strategy.
I'm now an "online writing site" and not just a "blogging site", which I did because I can feature any freelance articles I may get published in various places online as well as my blogs.
The transition was easy.
First, I got a 33% discount coupon from Weebly for changing from their sub-domain to my own domain, that helped in the decision, I could afford $27 for a year.
And it was so simple to do, just enter in the domain name I wanted to request, they check to see if it's already being used, and if it's not then I can take it (for the aforementioned $27).
So I did.
And the really best part is that if anyone bookmarked the old website and still used it to get to my site, Weebly automatically redirects it to the new site.
So I don't have to confuse or lose anyone (anyone?) who may have had a link to the old site name.
There were a couple ramifications regarding statistics but I'll save that for another post.
The main thing is, I have my own domain name now.
com for free.
And as I mentioned in a previous post, Weebly allows you to have both web pages and blog pages in the same domain and landing page.
This allowed flexibility to an uncommitted person like me.
So I have the blogs now and they seem to be getting some traffic.
But then I found that three of my informational, kind of how-to, articles were approved for being published by EzineArticles popular site.
This could potentially lead to traffic coming back to my site if Ezine readers are curious and link to my homepage URL at the bottom of the article.
So now I was a little more certain that I wanted to have my own domain, just because it looks better, and I can take it with me if I ever move away from Weebly (but why would I, it meets all my needs so far).
Nevertheless, it looks more like I'm serious about what I'm doing (does that mean I'll have to get serious about it?) So I took the opportunity to choose a new domain for myself.
This not only accomplishes what I talked about above, it helped me define my strategy.
I'm now an "online writing site" and not just a "blogging site", which I did because I can feature any freelance articles I may get published in various places online as well as my blogs.
The transition was easy.
First, I got a 33% discount coupon from Weebly for changing from their sub-domain to my own domain, that helped in the decision, I could afford $27 for a year.
And it was so simple to do, just enter in the domain name I wanted to request, they check to see if it's already being used, and if it's not then I can take it (for the aforementioned $27).
So I did.
And the really best part is that if anyone bookmarked the old website and still used it to get to my site, Weebly automatically redirects it to the new site.
So I don't have to confuse or lose anyone (anyone?) who may have had a link to the old site name.
There were a couple ramifications regarding statistics but I'll save that for another post.
The main thing is, I have my own domain name now.
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