We've Moved. Again?

Welcome to suburban-kid.com.

Yes, you read that right: the Suburban KID team is proud to announce our arrival into a new home - www.suburban-kid.com. Yay! Since October 2011, our dot.tk domain has served us well, but we ultimately needed to 'move house'. So, you might ask, why the sudden change? Here is some insight as to why we did it.

Two years ago, we acquired the dot.tk domain name because it was, essentially, free. However, being FOC had its negative connotations. One of them being the fact that dot.tk still owns "www.suburbankid.tk", meaning that it can be swapped from us at any time. Obviously, we don't want that to happen, and I believe our lovely readers share our sentiments, so we decided to acquire a different domain name. Thankfully, the team has been able to chalk up our very own "www.suburban-kid.com", and in a short period of time*, I might say.

Another problem with the dot.tk domain was that it fared badly in search, particularly Google's. It was not search engine optimized (SEO). To put it simply, Google ignored us, and almost all dot.tk sites. Make a quick search for us ("Suburban KID") on Google, and you'll know what I mean; frankly, it was quite hard for us to get our content discovered by readers.

A look at our suburbankid.tk domain will show you that we still have not gotten automatic redirection to work, yet another con of using a free domain. We hope to resolve that issue in time, but for now we hope to ask all readers manually enter this URL to access the site.

This slightly abrupt change of homes, however, presented an opportunity for Suburban KID to grow up. In the past few months, the team has already grown in numbers, adding two writers and contributors - myself and Gregory. While we have had, regretfully, too little time to welcome to Greg properly, he now has his proper place on our "The Team" page, which you can check out (trust us, it's worth it...)

With big exams coming up for all of us, we unfortunately don't have much time to contribute to Suburban KID as we'd like. Rest assured, however, that we always have things in the pipeline, now more than ever, and we're excited about what's to come, which we hope will be equally exciting to all of you once we get to work on them properly. Watch this space.


*Editor's note: we actually acquired our domain name and activated the connection between Blogger's servers and our registrar within less than a day! The redirection from suburbankid.tk to our new location was, as you can see, a whole 'nother story, which resulted in the downtime.