Yuna
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Post by Yuna on Mar 26, 2014 15:27:56 GMT
So I'm going to do the little taboo and change my blog name soon. I've already purchased a new domain and I'm currently working on new branding and a little SEO research but I'd love to hear your thoughts on this and possibly give my check list a little run through and let me know if you think I've forgotten anything! - Create a new bloglovin account.
- Create a new domain associated email address i.e. hello@domain.com.
- Create a Facebook page (something I never did with Techbunny.net but want to do for the new domain).
- Create a Google+ page and link it to my Google+ profile as well as setting up post sharing to Google+ automatically (during my SEO research I found that even though g+ is largely unpopular doing these steps will help increase your page ranking which is helpful if you want better PR offers).
- Rename my twitter account.
- Notify PR companies I have worked with.
Have I missed anything?  Other thing's to decide: - Do I start afresh and build up new content (there is a lot of old tat in my blog from 2012/very early 2013 that I feel is no longer relevant).
- How to announce the name change?
- Rebuilding followers on Bloglovin/subscription?
Thoughts? Thank you 
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Post by musicandeyeliner on Mar 27, 2014 10:16:32 GMT
I think it's a great idea, and I love the new name! Don't forget Instagram, Pinterest, tumblr etc - if only just to 'keep' your name saved. Re: rebuilding followers. There's nothing to stop you keeping Techbunny open on BL for a while - maybe take past posts down and put up a holding/redirect page, but publish a new post on there every time you do one on the new site - but instead of it being the new post, just say what it is, and provide a link to the new site & blog login page. Does that make any sense?!  Announcing it - two options really. 1. Quick and dirty 'here's the new site. It's live now or xxxx date. Via TB & all your SM. 2. Phased. Drop details like URL etc ASAP. Put up a holding page/'coming soon'. The longer the lead-in time, the more likely people will move across if you hammer the message home. Then it's just a case of deciding when to finally switch off TB & redirect to the new URL. Content wise, well, it's a new site. Why not migrate a few absolute favourite/most popular posts, but then start afresh other than that? My two penneth anyway. I'm not exactly a web migration genius, xx |
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Post by Admin - Tea Party Beauty on Mar 27, 2014 13:45:29 GMT
You can email bloglovin and request they swap your followers over from old blog to new blog.
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Post by musicandeyeliner on Mar 27, 2014 14:07:25 GMT
You can email bloglovin and request they swap your followers over from old blog to new blog. x Wow, didn't know that. That's great!  x |
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Yuna
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ohai
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Post by Yuna on Mar 27, 2014 15:36:16 GMT
You can email bloglovin and request they swap your followers over from old blog to new blog. x Wow, didn't know that. That's great! x Ah that's great! I think I'll just do a purge of old crappy posts, I'm renaming my hosting directly so I won't even be installing a new instance of wordpress etc (I'm way too lazy) I have the majority of my oscial media sorted now too Thanks ladies! |
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Post by Admin - Tea Party Beauty on Mar 27, 2014 21:08:48 GMT
When I switched to own domain I emailed them and they changed it no questions asked
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Post by queenbeady on Mar 27, 2014 22:06:01 GMT
Oh my word. I have absolutely no idea what you are all talking about. I am so shit at the tech side of things. Good luck with the new domain! Let us know what it all is soon |
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