301 redirecting popular posts
by Ben MatthewsOne of the aims of FreeTrain.co is to migrate my most popular blog posts on freelancing and migrate them to a website that is independent of my personal brand.
Because the freelance articles are tied to my personal name, I often get a lot of random enquiries from people new to freelancing and I just don't have time to answer them all.
Answering people's questions about freelancing was why I started blogging in the first place, but that doesn't solve the issue!
Moving to a less personal site means I will get less individual enquiries and can instead direct them to paid courses or the membership community.
Now the landing page for FreeTrain is up and running and I've signed up for Podia, I've added redirects to the most popular posts about freelancing from my personal site through to the FreeTrain site.
The most popular post gets around 60,000 organic search hits a year, so this should mean a steady stream of potential customers visiting the FreeTrain site from the start.
My personal site got about 600 visits a day at its peak in the past 12 months without any updates from me, but this has dwindled to 300 hits a day.
I know I'll need to do some SEO work on the FreeTrain site to increase those visits again and I'll report back on progress in a month's time (note to self...)
