This is a big one. If you don’t know how to use or update your own site, what good is it? No good, that’s what. Well, it’s still good, but not as accessible as it should be for you.
Our clients always have unique requests, and time and time again our designers and developers have come through and built some amazing solutions. For the more advanced builds, we provide step by step instructions to walk our clients through making updates to these advanced elements. We also make sure that our clients are able to use and edit the not so advanced elements, as well.
We want to make sure that you can use and update your site on your own. That’s the whole purpose of using a modern platform like HubSpot’s COS. If your website company has not provided documentation on how to use your new site, ask them for it.
Lunch, or launch?
Congrats, you’ve made it! Launch days are exciting - I love launching sites.
First up is making sure all the proper domain names are in your domain manager. You should have your main domain, and sub domains for emails and landing pages.
Then comes the DNS edit; this is the step where you flip the switch on the new site, as some would say (though it’s a little more involved than that). To point your domain name to HubSpot and away from your old server, we update the A record to point to the IP address that HubSpot gives us in the domain manager. Then we wait. Most domain registrars say it will take 24-48 hours for a domain to fully resolve to a new address, but we usually see it happen in two or three hours.
Once the site resolves we have a few last steps, which include setting up Webmaster Tools and verifying it on your site and submitting your sitemap to Google.
Phew.
Now what? Well, now you start enjoying your new site. Start blogging. Create some landing pages and email campaigns. Need some help getting started there? Well, our awesome inbound marketing team is here to help! Just give us a call!
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