Making your blog findable: Do as I say, not as I do

There is one big problem with this blog beside the fact that I seldom update it: it’s hidden away in a subsection of a subdirectory—it’s not RickYaeger.com the way it should be.¹

In the beginning, the blogs.macmerc.com subdomain was followed by /rick, /brian and /james …me and the other guys who regularly submitted stories to MacMerc.com. It was a subdomain for all our blogs. It made sense at the time.

As time went on the guys decided they wanted blogs under their own brand² and I should have gotten a clue at that point and registered my name and put my blog under its header, but I didn’t.

Since then I have posted stories that have been linked by high profile sites and continue to bring in eyes to this little, far-off corner of MacMerc.com, so now it becomes important to make sure any changes to the URL of the site don’t disrupt the incoming links.

What I’m trying to say, people, is this: don’t wait until you get some attention to start doing things the way you will do them when you’re successful—do it right and do it right now.

If you haven’t registered yourname.com, do it now. Domains are crazy-cheap at GoDaddy.com

If you don’t have a blog and are intimidated by even starting one, I wrote an article on how to set up a Tumblr blog at your own custom domain. It will get you set up with a blog with very little technical effort. As for the actual blogging, a follow-up video is on the way.

Stake your claim on your name—if you don’t someone else will.

1. at least it hasn’t been for all these years it has been around [↩]
2. as well they should [↩]