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Step 10: Put Up the New Page and Wait

The New Web Page

The New Web Page

Screen shot by J Kyrnin

This is the hardest part. I've now put up the new page, but I won't know how well it's been optimized for a while. The easiest way to see if your optimization worked is to check your Web page logs periodically. In my latest stats, it got 12 page views. Hopefully, with better search engine optimization, it will go up.

As you can see, with the redesign, the URL changed. If you do that, you should always make sure that the old page redirects to the new one. That way, any page views you might have got to the old page won't be lost.

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