Dear Writers,

I am sending this out in an email blast to ensure you see the information below.

Tonight is the night! This evening, sometime between 8pm and 12am, when you try to go to http://www.LetterRep.com, you may find that it no longer exists. That won’t last long!

At some point during that time, I will have our domain registrar, Network Solutions, point the domain name servers from the IP address on the host where LetterRep currently exists to the IP address on the new host. While it used to take a few days for the tables in the servers to associate our domain name with a new IP, now it only takes a few hours. By Saturday morning/evening (depending on where you are in the world) you should have no problems reaching the site.

Some things, however, cannot be tested until the site is up: Secure purchasing, for example. We need the site active and operational so we can check to ensure the payment process works and get all the ‘kinks in the hose’ worked out. This blog will need to get turned on and likely some other unseen things will need tweaking.

I ask each of you to please check as many nooks and crannies of the site, both customer side and writer side, as possible. If you find a problem, please let me know immediately: rob [at] letterrep.com.

With the new site you will see lots of changes: SEO-friendly URLs, auto-redirect from bad links, improved page titles, meta tags, ALT tags and keyword tags, etc. These are the obvious changes. Other, less obvious, have been done as well.

As I’ve mentioned in some detail in the past, writers will soon be able to add a description/article of their letters as they post them. I have held off asking anyone to get a headstart on this mainly because linking the keywords in your text back to the site is an important part of process; however, because the site is moving, any links built to existing pages will need to be changed.

More about all that in another post.

Let me know if you have any questions.

~Rob

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