Editorial Notes: Upcoming Site Migration

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Time flies....... TanksTravelTales has been hosted on Blogger since Sep 2014. It has been more than 6 years and counting as of today!

Blogger is a great site for blogs. I have no doubt many who have used or are still using its services will agree. It's free, it's easy to use and it's a really fun way to explore having your own space in the internet world.

But with the growing content development of TanksTravelTales, we feel that this blog has grown sufficiently to move to its next stage of development, including having its own domain name, more control of its blog and other contents and the ability to better harness SEO to be visible to a wider audience base. With that, we will be gradually migrating from our current Blogger sub-domain to our own domain within the next few months. As visitors to the site, the initial migration will be transparent to you. All articles and posts on this blog will continue to remain active and available and new posts will continue to be posted here during the site migration period.

When the site migration is completed, you may find that you will be automatically re-directed to our new domain when you click on link(s) in this blog.

Even after the completion of our site migration, our blog in Blogger will continue to remain active and be maintained. It is just that newer contents will be uploaded to our new site instead of in this blog. However, during the transition period and thereafter, links and notices will be posted in this blog to help introduce and re-direct you to our new contents in our new home on the internet. :-)

We thank you for your support and hope for your continued support in the months and years to come. And we certainly look forward to sharing more Travel Tales with you.......


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