A New Chapter: From an Old Site to a New Site
Published on March 4, 2015
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My purpose in telling this short story is to encourage you in your endeavor and to give you some perspective on the transfer process.
About nine years ago, I started my first website called pastortae.org. And TODAY, March 3, 2015, it expired from GoDaddy. I chose not to renew the name and hosting package as I am building new sites here at WA. The old site (.org) has now become a new site www.pastortae.com
This is a new chapter for me as the main vestiges of the old ways are officially gone and the new ways are here.
I typed the old site www.pastortae.org and it is no longer there! That's a very strange feeling. It was the one constant for nine years.....containing over 30 years of teaching, writing, sermons, workshops, services, counseling, consulting, events......it's all gone.
Reflecting back, it really was the good ole days of not knowing anything. I mean that literally. All I knew was how to add content and add images. And there it stayed in cyberspace for nine years. They say that ignorance is bliss. And it was definitely true for me as I knew nothing about keywords, and the pursuit of ranking or sitemaps or anything that WA has taught me. And so, I was blissfully happy with my site.
But here's my point, I STILL got so much traffic and opportunities and got a lot of remuneration for the services I provided via the site. I have so many stories of people finding my site and finding help for their spiritual lives. I even have dramatic stories of deleted files still floating around cyberspace and being found by desperate people who found help.
And now, as I turn the page and start a new chapter at WA and with all things expired from the past, I am even more hopeful. This is an a-fortiori proposal that IF I was able to benefit so much from a site that I did nothing but write content, THEN HOW MUCH MORE should I benefit from the new sites with the applied WA training!
I am hopeful that this new chapter will bring a greater blessing with even more opportunities and more people being helped and a total win-win situation (others being blessed and I benefit as well.)
I hope that this short anecdote will encourage you to continue in your work with hope and anticipation that what we learned here at WA will bring a win-win situation, bringing solutions to visitors and bringing benefits back to you.
There are others here at WA who have built sites somewhere else and have now moved here with great anticipation. That's great. I am here to say that it was the right thing to do.
And for me, I made the right decision. And so, pastortae.org is officially gone. But www.pastortae.com is now here to stay and becoming the central organizing hub of all my other sites.
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Thanks for reading and I hope you are encouraged to press on.
With great anticipation
Pastor Tae
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UPDATE: HelenpDolye (below) asked a great question about how people following the old site would be able to find and follow the new site. This is a great question that I answered briefly to her, but I want to outline the steps here in case any of you might consider a similar transition in the future. In my case, it was a general plan I had for the past 3 years though I did not know about WA at that time. I was planning to make a transition out of a .org site into a .com site since .com is better and since .org is more for a non profit organization and I was just an individual. I also planned to transition out of Dreamweaver and into WordPress. And so, here is a simple outline of what I did.
1. About 3 years ago I purchased the .com and connected it to the .org site. At this point, the .org domain name is set as the primary name connected to the website. And so, the .com is simply attached and pointed.
2. I asked GoDaddy to display the .com as the web address. So, those old followers for 9 years were slowly becoming familiar with the .com name. My plan was to wean the people away from the .org. And honestly, it wasn't that hard because the people were already typing in the .com even before I purchased it....hence the power of .com. And so, I had 2 domain names pointing to the same website with the .com being displayed.
3. Then 3 months ago, I separated the two names. I kept the old site with the .org name and started building a NEW site with the .com name here at WA. Back then, I wrote about the prospect of moving in a January blog. In that blog, I also documented the technical things I had to do. Click: I'm Moving
4. Then I put announcements on both sites announcing the transition that was to happen in March.
5. I took to social media months ago and continued to make announcements about the move. But by this time it wasn't a big deal.
6. When the expiration date came, it was an easy process of letting the old one expire and the new one continue on.
7. And so, this blog was really just the final step in confirming what was already happening over a 3 year period.
* I hope that gives you insight into the transition process in case you choose a similar path.
* to see the overall inter-relationship of all the websites, click: http://pastortae.com/sponsor
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