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We’re Moving To CopywritingDean.com

Posted By Stephen Dean on March 8th, 2009

I’m changing my domain name for this blog. You can find new posts here: http://www.copywritingdean.com

I decided Stephensblog.com wasn’t the best domain for my business. My name (Stephen) is kind of hard to spell. Many people spell it wrong. And it’s spelled differently than it sounds.

Ideally I’d move to StephenDean.com, but that domain is not available and likely not for sale. Apparently there’s a French artist with the same name as me who got it first. (I have emailed about it, but never got a response.)

So what to do…

CopywritingDean.com makes a lot of sense to me.

* It does have my last name in it “Dean.”
* It contains the keyword I’m targeting most.
* It kind of has a double meaning. Copywriting Dean, or Dean of Copywriting. You know?!
* And it better explains my site.

This site currently gets a lot of search engine traffic, and I don’t want to leave it all behind. So I’m going to keep it up for a while and see what I can do with the traffic.

Hopefully I’ll be able to build up links to http://www.copywritingdean.com quickly. If you already have me in your blogroll, I’d really appreciate it if you changed the URL to copywritingdean.com.

If you don’t have me in your blogroll, I’d really appreciate it if you added me :)

Again, thanks for reading everyone.

 

While Away The Hackers Will Play…

Posted By Stephen Dean on December 11th, 2008

I stepped away from the computer for the last month and change.  Needed a break.  And just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

The credit card I had on file had expired and wasn’t rebilling.  I lost a pretty important domain in my business.  I’d been planning on ditching the domain soon, but it would have been nice to use it to redirect!

I also lost three blogs, including this one.  It was obvious that my website, not just my blog had been “hacked” to some degree.  A ton of spam links started showing up on my pages.  And after talking to my host they informed me the database where all my blog posts are kept… was corrupted.

I lost around 400 posts and a lot of google love.  This also happened to my sister’s blog and a hobby blog that was pretty important to me on a personal level.

Aye carumba.

In any case, it’s time to start again.  I just finished uploading as many useful posts to this blog that I could find in Google’s cache, so this will be the 60th post.

More posts will follow.  It’s good to be back.

(And thanks Jim Sansi for welcoming me back to the blogosphere.)

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5 Responses to “While Away The Hackers Will Play…”

Jim
December 12th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

You can register domains for several years at a time…

-Jim

Ryan Healy (4 comments.)
December 14th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

Oh, man. That’s rough. Sorry to hear about all the “chaos” you’ve had to deal with.

I can certainly relate to wanting to take a break. Generally speaking, I only ignore things for 24-48 hours when I’m feeling burnt out.

And even then, I only ignore those things that can be ignored. After all… I’ve got a family to feed. ;-)

Stephen Dean
December 14th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

@Jim - Sigh, yeah.

@Ryan - Ya, my break was pretty extreme. Some soul searching. Typically I wouldn’t be able to take that long off either, but the timing was right. Feels good to be back.

And I think I just found all the posts to my personal blog in Google’s cache, so I’m dang happy about that.

Annie Anderson (1 comments.)
December 15th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

Stephen,

That’s awful! But I’m glad you’ve found some of your stuff.

If you’re running WordPress, there is a plugin that will send you a back up of your site. It can be set up to send it daily, weekly, etc. Might think about doing that.

I also use a blogging software just for this very reason. I’m on a Mac, so I use MarsEdit but if you’re on a Windows machine, there are programs available. At least then you have the majority of your stuff should something happen again.

Ed Dale uses Scrivener, I believe, to write his emails and posts, etc. I have it as well but don’t usually use it for blog writing, though that is where I do all of my other writing.

Glad to see you’re back! I was wondering what was up with you. And thanks for stopping by my blog this weekend. I appreciate it. ;-)

~ Annie

Stephen Dean
December 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

Thanks Annie I had forgotten about that plugin. I’ll make sure to install it on all my blogs this time.

Thanks for stopping by.