Google Cache

What a week it has been so far! Very frustrating, yes. But also very illuminating as to what we need to do to shore-up the site. Thanks to google page cache, we were able to grab bits and pieces we needed to reconstruct certain aspects that crashed the site during the code save.

Now, I wouldn’t say this has been catastrophic, but we have suffered a serious impact on views and also a decrease in people hitting the site. I don’t blame them one bit. No one wants to use a site that is broken, or that cannot keep up a certain status-quo.

I will say that most of this seems to be due to the cancellation of our contest this week. No contest, no traffic. That is pretty much how it works. Since we could not count the submissions accurately; since some postings were being refused, it seemed a better idea to skip a week and have a larger reward.  So next week we will look for our boost in traffic and hopefully get us back up to the numbers.

So, what is the trick now? To get our regulars back. The internet is a fickle place with new and interesting ways to spend your time cropping up everywhere! To be able to keep a pair of eyeballs coming back to your site day after day, much less week after week, requires a lot of sweat on the brow, be it virtual or otherwise.

Ok, time to get back to work on the forum!

Tags: google, google cache, internet

13.Aug.08 running the site Comments (0)