What Should I Do With My Old Site? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Hi,

I am hoping to get some insight on an old site that I had.  When I was deciding and teaching myself about blogging and learning Wordpress, I put up a site as a journal.  When I started my new site not that long ago, I let the other site go.  My traffic was building from some of the article writing and back links that I put in place.  I decided to forward that URL to my current site.  Now it is my top referring site.  

The problem is that I feel like I had let my few readers down by abandoning the site and possibly could have a good niche with new readers that searched out my site.  I was thinking about putting up a page with all the blogs and stuff I had on that site so people know why they ended up on my new site.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Joe

I think that forwarding the site to your new url was the way to go. Did you do it as though your site had moved, with a permanent 301 redirect?

I think that if you have enough time to post at least 2 new articles a week, you should revive the other site (and do it soon before you lose those readers). Once grown, you could always sell it, or just enjoy the added income each month. If you don't have to time to post on that site, then just perform the 301 redirect like Jackie suggested.

If it is an option, you can also try selling the site/domain in flippa or to private buyers