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In the mean time, All the crawlers came (Crawlers monitor my website everyday) and indexed the Database Error message.
Now, after a fight with the host, the script is up again, the traffic amount that is coming is same again but not targetted. CTR is low and so are the earnings. Quality of Organic traffic is down and I dont know how much time it will take to SEs to recover me the traffic I deserve.
Moral of the story: Try not to use any Database Scripts for Adsense. My Host (Westhost.com) is listed in one of the top 100 Webhosts on the net. But there are simply too many hassels with it.
I plan to change the host but it will mean more of the downtime. right?
Any suggestions guys? How to tackle such situations? Is there be a Server Error Message that can say to the crawler "Crawl back later"? which I can program in my Database script to show when nothing is working?
Your expert comments please!
There's also the possibility that the search engines will see all the broken pages(that has been fixed again) as new updates to the pages.
So this "disaster" could work out quite well for you :)
If you want to see the last included date of your page, go to google, and open the cached version of your page
at the top it will show the date of that cached version, thats a fairly accurate way of judging when google last updated that page in their index.
[edited by: McClaw at 7:01 am (utc) on Jan. 12, 2006]
Thankfully, Google crawls the site fairly frequently, so it didn't take too long to bounce back. I also count it as a valuable learning experience. I've now moved the site to a much more reliable and supportive host that users clustered servers etc.
Then you can hire a service admin to monitor and install
web services/ Maybe $200 usd monthly.
Dowtime might be 1-2 hours if you follow these steps
1)Rent the server
2)Hire Server Admin to set up web Services
3) Test that php is running
4) Install a clone of your webpage
5) Test that it works, then install real website
6) On your host site, ask him to set the ttl high
7) Point your domain to new host
8) Wait until the domain Transfer and you should be back
in 2 hours if done correctly
You will also get the benefit of having more bandwidth
, better speed, and your website should not go down very often, provided you get quality server and service admin.
This might make you more dollars in the long run, but its also a risk, if something happens like google removes your site and you dont have any $$ to pay for the servers.
I guess thats why its good to not put all eggs on one basket and turn your site into a service rather then an entertainment site.
I have just written several pages about this theme, how unreliable database constructions are, how fast a server can be crashed by suddenly more visitors.
My database generates on my computer the web site. All in simple pure html pages.
On the server are this html pages. That's security.
