Friday, February 15, 2008

Skipping Back Up Soon - I Hope

I have had a dreadful few weeks with my web sites. The web site hosting company was taken over by another company, and they wanted to move the sites to a new server. They promised a smooth transition with no down time, but it didn’t work out like that.

Health & Goodness in particular was affected and was off-line for most of last week.Even this week we are still being affected as traffic is less than half what it usually is. Presumably because Google and the other search engine spiders couldn’t find many of the pages last week – at one point there were over 500 faulty internal links.

One of our most popular information pages on skipping which usually gets over 1000 visitors a month, because it was at the top for organic searches for skipping tips etc. is now no where to be seen.It’s all very frustrating, but hopefully now that the site is back up and the internal links are working, the search engines will look kindly on the site again and put it back where it belongs – on the first page for many organic searches.