Domain Change, Yakezie Round Up, and Uncommon Money News (Vol. 101)
| July 6, 2010 | Posted by Roshawn Watson under Uncategorized |
By: Roshawn Watson
Notice anything different. How about a change in the URL for this website? Bingo. Well over this weekend, I have finally migrated Watson Inc from the old URL http://www.www.roshawnwatson.com to www.roshawnwatson.com. I know it is not original to use your name as the domain for your website, but it is certainly pragmatic. Len Penzo mentioned that the name is secondary to content anyway, and I tend to agree. However, that doesn’t mean I didn’t experiment with other names (i.e. your wealth builder.com, yourfinance.com, Richdad.com and Dave Ramsey.com) weren’t available. (Incidentally, yourfinance.com apparently was available for the nominal fee of $25,000, but I decided to pass on it though 🙂 Thus, I chose to migrate the site to roshawnwatson.com, which I had purchased a couple years ago. All previous content is still available, all subscriptions are still active, and all of the old URLs still work! Probably the biggest disappointment is that some of the background work I do in terms of marketing, SEO, Alexa ranking all have to be readdressed. It’s sort of like restarting again. Unfortunately, all of your past RTs, Digg votes, stumbles, etc. are not displayed on this new URL. I still have tremendous gratitude for all of your generous help. It’s been a phenomenal ride so far, and I am so excited about upcoming projects and the increased appearance of professionalism this domain change will afford.
Now, it’s time to do the weekly Uncommon Money News and Yakezie Round Up (interestingly, the first phase of Yakezie ended on Sunday).
Uncommon Money News and Yakezie Round Up
In preparing to write my posts, I often come across noteworthy and sometimes bizarre financial and business news. Below are links to some of these sites. Enjoy!
Recently, I participated in four carnivals: Festival of Frugality hosted at Funny about Money, First Yakezie Milestone Carnival hosted at My Journey To Millions, The Economy and Your Finances hosted at One Mint, and Carnival of Financial Planning #148 hosted by My Wealth Builder
2 Cents from Balance Junkie gave the link love out on Friday with 10 great posts from 2010. I am honored that Will the Economy Collapse In 2011? was included in this semi-annual round up!
College: Big Investment, Paltry Return
Business News
College: Big Investment, Paltry Return
Oil Companies Reap Billions From Subsidies
BP Criminal Case in Oil Spill May Be Inevitable
Woot Acquired by Amazon
20 Products That Are More Affordable Today Than 10 Years Ago
Ford CEO Gets Paid More Than Top 3 Japanese Execs Combined
Economy
Court sides with Schwarzenegger on minimum wage
Entertainment Money News
Twilight Saga’ — the Making of a Bargain Blockbuster and How Big a Bang for Eclipse?
The Most Unexpectedly Profitable Celebrity Businesses
Team’s goal to make LeBron a billionaire
The-Dream: It’s Easy Raising a Baby When You’re Rich Like Me
Could Elin Nordegren’s Silence Cost Tiger Woods $700 Million? no just $100 million
Offbeat Money News
College Grad Sues Dad to Cover Student Debt
10 Home Repairs That Will Save You Money
Yakezie
Inflation or Deflation: Which Is It? (at Balance Junkie)
Are You An Accumulator or Decumulator? (at RW Investing by DIY Investor)
Can You Achieve Financial Freedom With Passive Income? (at Squirrelers)
Your Net Worth Is An Illusion (at Financial Samurai)
20 Cents from June 2010 (at Balance Junkie)
Why We Love Real Books (at The Wealth Artisan)
Funny about Money, First Yakezie Milestone Carnival hosted at My Journey To Millions
Thanks for mentioning my articles. I hope everything goes smoothly for you with your URL change!
No problem, you have great content. The URL change is just growing pains.
Thanks for the mention. Keep the great posts coming!
You are welcome. Thanks so much your great posts. I'm enjoying them!!!
Hi Shawn- Had to stop by when I heard about the migration!!!! Interesting reading. I'm sure it was not fun!!! Did you do it yourself? Barb
Hey Barb, thanks for stopping by. Yeah the migration is a trip. It hasn't been nearly as cumbersome as it could have been. There was a point where all of my comments disappeared, which was very scary. Then there's the whole issue of ranking changing… and other things. I'm trying not to stress over it though. I did the migration myself this weekend. It didn't take too much time. I was just very cautious about it though.
Congrats on the change! Next stop, transfer to WordPress perhaps?I would love to comment more here, but the issue is blogger doesn't save any of my info, so I have to retype everything over and over again. Then I've got to type in the word verification thing. It's tough!Is there a better comment system on blogger?Best,Sam
@Financial SamuraiTransfer to WordPress? I've certainly considered it (still am). I'm going to have to specifically look into the comment issue. I hate it as well.
Then there's the whole issue of ranking changing… and other things. I'm trying not to stress over it though. I did the migration myself this weekend. It didn't take too much time. I was just very cautious about it though.
. Yeah. You are completely right. PR went up but Alexa went from respectable 200Ks to 1.9M. Trying not to stress though as you said!!! Thanks for stopping by.Regards,Shawn
Congratulations on your domain name. I think you have a lot of flexibility using your name for the name.
Thanks so much. I'm glad the change is working out so far.