Change of URL - Site almost 2 years old

[Oliver]

Hello all,

VGX-XLpedia and VGX-XLforum are almost 2 years old now, during this time we have become the No1 site for all things relating to our VGX-XL systems.
The URL, www.vgx-xl.com, that I purchased nearly 2 years ago is now up for renewal and my current url host, names.co.uk, is wanting to charge me £47.99 to renew for 2 years and proboards will charge $12 to allow the sub-domain, forum.vgx-xl.com for another year. I'm sure if I shop around the URL cost could be reduced but I don't really feel the need to spend any money, as the main source of info for our systems I'm sure both sites will remain high on Google and continue to be found easily.

I would like to make perfectly clear, that both VGX-XLpedia and VGX-XLforum sites are not in any danger, they will not disappear, all the information, all your posts, everything will remain as it is.

The only difference is that the sites will be found at the (free) URLs below...

VGX-XLpedia - sites.google.com/site/vaioxlgroup/

VGX-XLforum - vgx-xl.proboards.com/

As VGX-XLforum and VGX-XLpedia are provided free of charge, these URL changes will ensure that the sites remain free of charge and sustainable.

The free URLs are currently in use along side our expiring custom URLs and I recommend that you bookmark the above free URLs now before the custom URLs disappear.
The custom URLs will end in 3 weeks time on the 20th of June 2015.

Alternatively, if anyone is really fond of the custom URLs, you could donate the cost of the URL and I will then renew it.

[IT Troll]

I have grabbed a domain name for you to use if you wish; a free domain hosted on a free DNS service.

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It just performs a redirect to the Google site, nothing special, so it is up to you if you want to promote it.

[Oliver]

Jun 1, 2015 14:53:43 GMT IT Troll said:

I have grabbed a domain name for you to use if you wish; a free domain hosted on a free DNS service.

It just performs a redirect to the Google site, nothing special, so it is up to you if you want to promote it.

Thanks, PM sent.

[IT Troll]

The old paid-for URL / DNS has now finally expired and instead goes to a names.com advert page.

Google search gives a large primary listing which includes links to these now broken URLs.

The second listing below these does give a valid link for the forum.

Valid links to the VGX-XLpedia site don't appear until page two of the search results.

[Oliver]

Jul 4, 2015 23:17:10 GMT IT Troll said:

The old paid-for URL / DNS has now finally expired and instead goes to a names.com advert page.

Google search gives a large primary listing which includes links to these now broken URLs.

The second listing below these does give a valid link for the forum.

Valid links to the VGX-XLpedia site don't appear until page two of the search results.

I'm pleased with the forum link, the old forum URL seems long gone and the new .proboards address is featured highly.

Unfortunately the VGX-XLpedia site has not been so fortunate, I'm sure it will just take a few weeks before the old URL drops off Google and the new URL takes over. I changed the chronical preference for the new URL about 4 weeks ago.

Some of the links on VGX-XLpedia still point to the old address, this I need to fix and will do asap, my in-laws are staying with us at the moment so its rather hectic. For the time being, all pages can still be accessed by changing the start of the url to the new URL sites.google.com/site/vaioxlgroup/

[Oliver]

Today I have tidied VGX-XLpedia up a little, removing a lot of the junk just leaving the important stuff. I have been checking through the site fixing dead links and I'm about halfway through now.

I would like to add more written content to the home page, but need some help deciding what should be added. If anyone what to help write some content for the home page that would be a great help

Hopefully this will further help the new URL's search ranking.