Am I off my blogging schedule or what? Writing on a Saturday morning? Who DOES that? I guess that is how I know it is vacation. No schedule. I'm just doing what I want. When I want.
Unless you count trying to get my car registered and failing the safety and emissions test and then having to buy new tires and new windshield washer reservoir and a new windshield pump. That wasn't exactly what I wanted this Christmas break. But moving on!
I have something pretty freaking exciting to announce over here and that is that I am the official owner of a dot com. BOO YAH! If you are still at the old blog address- bonnielouisa.blogspot.com well then it is time for you to get with the times and join us with the new address!
www.thelifeofbon.com
Isn't it beautiful?!?
Traffic from the old url is supposed to be directing to the new url but what do I know? I'm just some chick sitting in my pajamas eating a bowl of Honeycomb on a Saturday morning.
I am quite stoked about the new dot com. To tell you the truth, it wasn't my first choice of address. My first choice was without the "the". But it was already taken. I checked out the blog, too. Some lady in Canada who is obsessed with cats. She took my desired URL!
Luckily, google had some really great suggestions for me once we discovered that one was already taken:
My personal favorites were Period of Bon (because I'm sure you all want to know about my menstrual cycle) Existence of Good (how did they get that from Life of Bon?) and lastly, Death of Bon.
Seriously, google? Seriously? Death of Bon?!?! What kind of a morbid blog name is that? And more importantly, does google know something I don't?
Also, I'm sure one of you snarky little readers is going to point out how poor the quality is in that picture above. It is a picture of my computer taken by my phone and no, I don't know how to do screen shots. We all good now?
If you have my blog address saved somewhere under bonnielouisa.blogspot.com I suggest you change it to thelifeofbon.com. I don't know how long that old address will be around. You can't trust google. They'll flip you on your head without thinking twice about it.
The last thing I am going to say here before I force myself to suffer at the gym (Hubs noticed I haven't been for over 2 weeks and called me out on it. Oh, gym! Why are you such misery?!?!) is that if you think you are going to be blogging semi long term you should get a dot com address. It was ridiculously easy. I had no idea. I have been putting it off for so long and once I realized how easy it was I wish I would have done it a year ago. Seriously. It would have been so much more convenient if I would have gotten my dot com address when I had 100 followers. Now I'm afraid that at this point, changing my blog address will lose some readers. But what can you do? WARN OTHERS! Get a dot com address right now! It's so easy.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO GET A DOT COM ADDRESS VIA BLOGGER
SORRY WORDPRESS PEOPLE. I CAN DO NOTHING FOR YOU.
Step 1: Go to settings.
Step 2: Under settings, go to basic.
Step 3: Under PUBLISHING you will see your blog address as it currently is. Under that in blue it says +Add a Custom Domain. Click that.
Step 4: Try the address you want. It might already be taken. In which case google will have several fantastic suggestions of site names that aren't taken. Choose one.
Step 5: Continue to registration. Fill out your contact information and all that crap.
Step 6: Pay. It costs $10 a year for a dot com address that is hosted on blogger. This is far and away the cheapest way to do your blog (Godaddy charges closer to $60 for the year for a dot com)
Step 7: You're done! According to google it takes up to 24 hours to get the site up and running. Mine took an hour is all. They say it takes up to 48 hours for your old site to completely redirect to your new site, so I am still patiently waiting for that to happen. The only thing that is messed up with my old url now is that the followers widget is all out of whack. I'm hoping that will fix itself.
There you go, ladies. Do yourselves a favor this new year and spend $10 for your own dot com address. I promise, it is super easy and worth the hassle- especially worth it to do it early on!
