It has finally happened! 😀
After quite a bit of effort over the past week or so, we have finally given the official Spin Rewriter Blog a home it deserves.
As you must have noticed, up until this point the Spin Rewriter Blog lived right here — inside my own personal (AaronSustar.com) blog. Sure, all relevant posts were tagged with the “Spin Rewriter” keyword for easy browsing, but still — at its core, this situation was less than ideal.
It also felt jarring for visitors browsing the Spin Rewriter website that they were taken to an entirely different website when they clicked the “Blog” link in the main header. Sure, a lot of companies are doing it this way, hosting company blogs on dedicated blogging platforms (such as WordPress) — but it’s definitely not the best way of doing it.
And here at Spin Rewriter, we only want what’s truly the BEST for you, our awesome users. 😀
So, here’s what we did:
- We set up our own custom, in-house blogging platform.
- We moved all 292 existing blog posts from the current WordPress-based blog into our own blogging platform.
- We updated and re-formatted all imported posts as required (this included moving all uploaded images to the primary Spin Rewriter website).
- We created 3 new types of subpages on the Spin Rewriter website: Blog Home (self-explanatory), Blog Archive (e.g. when browsing posts by month) and Blog Post (when reading an individual post).
- We added “301 redirects” from all existing Spin Rewriter related blog posts on AaronSustar.com to their rightful place on the Spin Rewriter website. As you know, SEO is pretty dang important!
- We rolled out the new on-site blog to our live (production) servers.
And that’s it. With that, all of our existing 292 blog posts about Spin Rewriter now live on the Spin Rewriter website, in its Blog section.
And now I’m off to write the first ever blog post that will only appear on the new on-site Spin Rewriter Blog.
It’s a big one. A HUGE ONE. And you’re welcome to read it here!