I’ve been thinking about something of a rebrand. Basically, want to align different elements of my web presence with elements of my life. The professional side, the poet, and, well, everything else. What I’ve decided is to distribute my content across three sites (I already held these domains)
- CarlSetzer.com (this site…professional content)
- CarlSetzer.net (for haiku and other poetry)
- NotJustSeattle.com (my blog for the other random things)
CarlSetzer.com has the most SEO for my name, so I wanted recruiters and those looking for freelance talent to find me and my professional content quickly.
CarlSetzer.net started as a poetry site, so it’s really just coming back to the beginning. I just brought over all the poetry I’ve written over the past few years to get this page up-to-speed. This will tie into most of my social media accounts as that mostly been poetry.
NotJustSeattle.com fits me as someone who considers himself a lifelong Seattleite, but who was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and spent a lot of his childhood travelling the country. I’ll figure out this page soon and start updating with energy.
I’m not planning on porting my subscribers over, but am amenable if that’s what you want me to do. If I did that, I guess I would bring everyone over to CarlSetzer.net, and most of you seem to have connected with me over my haiku. Let me know what you think.
So, I’d love it if you popped over to the other accounts and subscribed. It’d mean the world to me. With all this, I’m planning on relaunching my haiku a day series on CarlSetzer.net. Come and join me there!
Honestly it would seem easier to do just one site for all. What about a format (a WordPress “theme”) with two or three columns? Cooking blogs, for example, might have a recipe column alongside a photo of the food and another column with narrative such as when they served this.
I thought about something like that, but I was worried that it would cause confusion when someone comes to my site to know what it’s about. Plus, with the emails that get sent out, I figure I’d annoy someone who subscribes just for one area of content, but gets blasted with the others. Perhaps unwarranted, but that’s what’s going on in my head.