The End of an Era

I have made an impulsive decision to migrate my personal blog/website to a new URL today.
PalmerForPresident.com has sort of become stale as a name. Really, it’s almost totally irrelevant considering the reason I initially registered the URL was to support the fictional character “David Palmer” from Fox’s show 24 who was killed off many years ago.

Bottom line is that the URL “www.palmerforpresident.com” is very long to type, and it’s just past it’s time.
I felt like it was time time to move on to something shorter and more “personal” to me.

There will be a migration period; but from this day forward my new website will be www.ericvb.com.

Anyone who follows me on any various outlets such as GoogleReader, if you would be so kind as to update your subscription URLs accordingly that would be a very good game.

Posted on June 12, 2009 at 3:56 pm by Vanberge · Permalink
In: Journal, Site related

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  1. Written by Jeff
    on June 13, 2009 at 10:28 am
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    I recommend you have p4p do a 301 redirect to the new url. By having both urls serve the same content you are going to slaughter your search ranking.

  2. Written by vanlandw
    on June 13, 2009 at 10:31 am
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    yeah that is what i did when bauercount moved from vanlandw.com/bauercount

    it’s still working if i’m correct a quick google search you should be able to set this shit up.

    mostly because anytime i’m going to attend your site i’m going to use p4p :-/

    until it no longer works anymore :-[

    gg brb

  3. Written by Vanberge
    on June 13, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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    Good call jja… I am going to set that up now.

  4. Written by Vanberge
    on June 13, 2009 at 5:25 pm
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    Im trying to find out how to do a more complex redirect. so it will keep my permalinks going to the right content. i.e. http://www.palmerforpresident.com/archives/grand-rapids-sonic will redirect to http://www.ericvb.com/archives/grand-rapids-sonic

  5. Written by Jeff
    on June 18, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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    You can do that simply by editing your htaccess script

  6. Written by Vanberge
    on June 18, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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    Jeff
    yeah i was missing the line that said follow symlinks.
    :-(

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