Online Money Dot.com

After the post a few days ago explaining why my domain name for this blog was so long (and stupid), I decided to take the plunge and change my blog URL.

My previous domain name (www.from-home-make-money-opportunity.com) was a keyword rich domain name. I actually went down the overture keyword list until I found the first available domain name based on search volume.

My new domain name, OnlineMoneyDot.com, has a lot more marketing and branding potential that my previous url. You can now link to me more often

Making the WordPress switch was almost too easy, which oddly enough makes me wonder if I did everything I had to do and if I did it right. I also did a 301 permanent redirect with my registrar (dynadot.com).

If something goes seriously wrong I can switch back to my previous site, which should still be there. I am sure there is also something that needs to be done, or that I should do as far as the links from the old posts are concerned. I will be doing some reading and updating this over the next few days.

While this change will be positive in the medium to long run, it does have some negative impacts in the short term. For one there is the search engine indexing and visits that I was getting on my old domain. My Alexa rank is also gone, so is my Technorati ranking. Not to mention the incoming links I had.

If you have a old link to my blog please update it, and if you see something messing up please let me know. Who would have said that in less than one month I would buy a WordPress theme, an ad on John Chow, and now a new domain name?!