{"id":23324,"date":"2020-01-08T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23324"},"modified":"2020-01-08T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:32:22","slug":"domain-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/08\/domain-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a project that didn&#8217;t take nearly as long as I thought it would, I&#8217;ve just moved my personal site from its former home of <code>www.michaelhanscom.com<\/code> to its new home here at <code>michaelhans.com<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the move is simple: The &#8220;&#8230;com.com&#8221; repetition at the end of the old URL formed by the end of my last name and the <code>.com<\/code> top-level domain suffix has always bugged me a little bit, and so the new URL is simpler and more clever.<\/p>\n<p>It has been pointed out to me that this new setup is likely somewhat less optimal in terms of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), as &#8220;the SEO power of [thing].com is probably less than that of [first-part-of-thing].[second-part-of-thing]&#8221;. However, 1) I&#8217;ve had my time at the top of the search results, and I&#8217;m okay with continuing to drop down in the rankings a bit, and 2) I&#8217;ve stopped running ads or paying any real attention to my statistics\/site visits\/rankings, so SEO just isn&#8217;t at the top of my concerns right now. I&#8217;m not going to <em>ignore<\/em> that entirely, but it&#8217;s simply not a major concern.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the move should be complete: All content has been transferred over to the new domain (and I&#8217;d like to take a moment to plug the WordPress plugin <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/duplicator\/\">Duplicator<\/a>, which made moving my blog <em>much<\/em> easier than I thought it would be; it wrapped everything up in an archive, I moved the archive to the new location, ran the installer, and that was it&#8211;it even scanned the database to replace any links to <code>www.michaelhanscom.com<\/code> inside blog posts with links to <code>michaelhans.com<\/code>, which was one of the tasks I was dreading), the <code>.htaccess<\/code> redirects are in place and working properly, and I&#8217;ve adjusted all external connections so that they all point to the right place.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a rather surprisingly uneventful move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve moved to michaelhans.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2040],"tags":[1457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}