After having our WordPress RSS feeds mysteriously stop working and spending hours on researching possible causes and solutions, we learned an interesting (and, possibly, obvious) lesson that we thought we’d share with our readers so they can avoid similar issues.

With all the social media sites out there, we were looking for a way to clean up all the extra URLs we’re using to direct people to our various profiles on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, etc.

Instead of having a bunch of different, messy-looking web addresses all over the place (ie: www.twitter.com/designgroupies or www.flickr.com/groups/designgroupies), we decided to set up several sub-domains under our web hosting account control panel and create redirects to the different sites. So, we set up a sub-domain for each social media site, such as: facebook.designgroupies.com or twitter.designgroupies.com

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