The lioness has moved
Heya, Lioness in Japan has moved to www.luiyuming.com. Yup, I finally got my own domain name. This idea has been incubating for awhile, and with the kangaroo’s help, I was able to update everything in just two days.
Why did I do this? Well, I have a few of reasons. Firstly, any web editor worth her salt should have her own domain name. It may be a personal blog but it is a gallery of my work and what I am capable of. I want to look more professional, too.
Secondly, search engines (primarily Google) actually regard Blogger and other blog domain names to be not much better than spam and inferior content. If you want link love from big daddy Google, you gotta spruce things up.
Lastly, I have been increasingly frustrated with my blogspot space — it is inflexible and if you compare it to the Wordpress community, there is a paltry number of themes and plugins to choose from.
Design is still my biggest weakness, as I’m first and foremost a writer, but these days, you just can’t sit in one role and make things happen. If budgets are tight, you have to multitask.
I used to be scared of technology and the Internet, but how I became braver began when I was just a rookie at a women’s magazine where any newbie was shoved the worst column — the tech page in the lifestyle section. It was kicked around like the bastard child in the family. But I forced myself to read the tech jargon and I realized that with all things tech, you would find a plethora of info on the biggest resource, the Internet.
The next step for me was to take care of our first website, Class Action Finder, where I bumbled about for a year between teaching English in Tokyo.
When I went full-time in Jan this year, I forced myself to go through trial and error. I crawled forums, learned HTML code, and googled lots of “what is”, “how to”, and “who is”. Every morning, I read articles and blogs on SEO and web trends, along with BBC and The Japan Times. I’ve still got tons to learn but this is where I am now.
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