The coding blog of Alastair Smith, a software developer based in Cambridge, UK. Interested in DevOps, Azure, Kubernetes, .NET Core, and VueJS.
I thought it was high time that my blog, being called CodeBork an’ all, be located at a codebork domain, so I just bought codebork.com and codebork.co.uk. codebork.co.uk has been configured as a ServerAlias for codebork.com. The site as a whole will continue to be accessible indefinitely at the current domain, alastairsmith.me.uk, but requests to this domain will be redirected (via a 301 Moved Permanently response) to codebork.com. Hopefully this will go some way to avoid annoying Google; after all, I now “own” the CodeBork search term on Google, and it would be dumb to upset that. In fact, it was that link (from Seth Godin’s rather excellent blog) that put me on to the idea. I’d mulled with buying these domains for a while, but hadn’t thought it really necessary. Given that my blog has been going under the name “CodeBork” for nearly a year now, and two of my blog posts currently occupy the top spots on the appropriate Google search, I thought I’d try a spot of SEO and see if I can’t get more than the just the first two results.
So there we have it: the next step in “building the CodeBork brand”. Or possibly the “brand of Alastair”, depending on how egocentric I’m feeling. :-)