If you don’t already have at least one other social media account such as a Twitter or an Instagram now is a good time to get out there into the bigger world and start building that up by making one.
We have an army of people on Twitter using hashtags like Hive, HiveIsAlive and what front end you are posting from like Peakd. Just using those tags alone will get the attention of many groups who are now running entire twitter accounts devoted to supporting content creators with likes, follows, finding others, and retweet.
I prefer to direct people to my Twitter. From there they can discover that I’ve moved over to PeakD. This also means I don’t have to change a bunch of profile stuff on other sites. So if I miss something as I’ve stopped using it people will see I have a link to Twitter if they really want to find out what happened.
I’ve also made several Tweets about moving to a new site. My followers are now informed of my move. Even more so since I’ve been tweeting like a crazy person over the past month. It takes time to educate people that changes have been made.
If you are in any discord or other types of communities even more so private ones where you you engage with people daily and they come out to support your content. Now is the time if they don’t already know that they will need to go to another website to view your content. Such conversions can also spark the “why are you going elsewhere” conversion. This lets a lot more people know outside of our normal bubble what has happened and why so many are going elsewhere.
I myself have been very active in a couple of discord. By now they are all aware of what happened and why I headed off to Hive.
For many, these things were already part of being a content creator. For others, you might decide you want to take the extra step and play a bigger role in not only promoting your own content but the platform as a whole. It’s up to everyone if they choose to play what role they can even if it’s just changing the website they have listed on their Twitter profile.
With the blockchain forking, all those old links to our old pages are still around. If you are like me and you linked at the bottom of many of your pages other similar content or something that was still open. Well on the blockchain side of things you are now sending people to the place we all left.
There is some good news is if you are using the platform Peakd. They can’t change things on the blockchain side for you on their own. On their front end, all your former Steem links should be displayed as Peakd ones. Keeping people on the website if they happen to come across an older link even years from now and click it.
The downside is many other front ends that will end up joining our ecosystem will pull that blockchain data and will be displaying links to Steem. While it is quite a mountain of work to do and maybe someone will create some kind of tool that could be trusted to go in and mass edit things while not bogging down stuff. You could have some manual work cut out for you.
I won’t be changing everything. There are just too many posts to go about it about manually even more so if you want to be somewhat crafty and send traffic from elsewhere to here. I am however making some changes to my commonly viewed and used content. I have also updated the major of the links in my index.
Thankfully I’ve put a lot of time into my indexes so it was as easy as using find and replace in a word document to change things out. Now I have hundreds of links that will be PeakD on the blockchain side of things.
The main one I’ve not touched yet is my blockchain gaming index. Since many of the games in there are Steem games that I hope will be migrating over. I have quite some work to do rewriting it and the content it links to regarding changes.
Many also use templates that you may need to replace old URLs with the new site you are using. Make sure to also upload and change out any banners, headers, text dividers, and other commonly used images.
You will also need to break any old habits you have such as which URL you will be sharing, linking, and using in your content and beyond. We are in a new home with new URLs. I’ve already noticed people linking to pages to the old place that doesn’t even exist out of force of habit before sharing a link!
For most users, this part will just be changing habits. Some might choose to put a lot of effort into changing our links to our new ecosystem on their older content. Remember to not burn yourself out trying to make a bunch of edits all in one day. Things are still getting put online here as well. So we don’t want to go too overboard just yet.
First off, I’m not talking about deleting a bunch of Tweets or other things that have links to your old blog. Your Twitter account by now should be considered quite the authority on your content. You don’t want to lose that. You just want to move forward and over time things will start showing up as you being on Hive.
Some people went out and made guest appearances on websites, YouTube channels and elsewhere. In exchange for doing so, people usually link out to your website or Twitter. If it was a website you might need to send off a few emails asking very kindly if they be willing to have your content information edited to reflect you are on a new site. Some will kindly do this for you. Others are too busy or can’t be bothered. This part is quite out of your hands other than being nice and hoping for the best.
If you are like me and you have funnels to drive traffic to your blog. Now is the time to start changing links out.
Since I’m a gamer I have my game reviews being linked to in a number of places. On one such place is a gaming site to buy games called Steam that I have my own curation page on. I already went ahead and changed out the links to all my reviews, profile pages, and anywhere else I could.
All of this is more for advanced users who are putting more time than most people are into being a content creator. I am by no means an expert and I’m sure those that are have a lot more things they need to get done than I have over our move.
While I am doing other things that I won’t be sharing in this post for reasons I won’t be getting into. I’m playing what role I can as a content creator to get the word out, drive traffic to my new blog, and pick up where I left off. I have quite a lot of years of creating content on another site to overcome. I sure won’t be shocked if months from now I get a message out of the blue by someone asking “where did you go?” Well, that will be interesting conversions for sure as they must have been busy and missed out on a lot of things.
Is there anything you have been doing for this move to a new site? Do you have a bunch of things to do? Are you just going to move forward and not worry about what is now in the past?
Screenshots were taken and content was written by @Enjar.
