Hello everyone! I’m pleased to announce that there are some changes afloat here at Simply Recipes, which I hope you will like as much as we do.

First, Simply Recipes finally now has its own domain name, SimplyRecipes.com. I actually bought the domain name several years ago, and even trademarked it, but have been reluctant to move the site over to the new domain lest the move disrupt the site’s searchability in Google. My web designer Jesse and I have been plotting for years, and working for months, to move the site and as of today we have started the transfer. Before today if you typed in simplyrecipes.com into your browser, you would be redirected to elise.com/recipes. But now, simplyrecipes.com has its own page, its own little corner of the Internet. Today, there’s only one page at simplyrecipes.com; all of the other pages on the site are still at elise.com/recipes. Over the next few months Jesse and I will be moving the site over to the new domain, section by section. This is an approach that is recommended by Google to minimize disruption in the site showing up in Google’s search engine, so I hope it works.

In the meantime, it would really help if you have a website and could link to us at http://www.simplyrecipes.com/. That will help let the search engines know that we really do exist at our new home. If you already link to Simply Recipes, but at the old domain, I would very much appreciate it if you would change the link to reflect the new simplyrecipes.com domain name (thanks!). Update: Those using iGoogle or Google Reader need not make any changes. The RSS feeds haven’t been changed to the new domain yet, and when they are, the old feeds will be automatically redirected to the new.

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