JBCR Virtual Solutions Blog

I have been work­ing on a revamp of a web­site and my client was very con­cerned that the site traf­fic had dropped con­sid­er­ably over the mid-summer months, which is the sites most pro­duc­tive time. I did all sorts of check­ing and could not come up with any­thing that really jumped out at me as a huge error that would cause this kind of a prob­lem. Yes the con­tent was stale, some of the meta tags incor­rect, and other issues, but noth­ing that should make it sud­denly drop as it did. So I went to the place I always go to when I know I can count on a wealth of knowl­edge from so many pro­fes­sion­als. Web Pro World! http://www.webproworld.com

Over the past 24 hours I have to say the biggest help has been a man who calls him­self “Web­nauts”. He is a mod­er­a­tor at Web Pro World. I assume he does not want to use his real name ’cause no doubt peo­ple would mes­sage him ques­tions and he would never get any of his own work done. I did notice that he has a Web Direc­tory — check it out here: http://directory.webnauts.net

**Update** Web­nauts was kind enough to pass on his infor­ma­tion to me. His name is John and read more about him here http://www.webnauts.net/curriculum.html Thanks John!!

Any­ways, one thing that ‘Web­nauts’ showed me was by try­ing to cre­ate a Google Map can actu­ally show you reams of errors on a web­site. This is incred­i­bly help­ful when try­ing to fig­ure out a prob­lem, but even more so when solv­ing prob­lems before they crop up. To cre­ate a Google Map go here: http://www.sitemapdoc.com/Default.aspx He also gave me a link to check for bro­ken links here: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

It is such a joy that we can all share infor­ma­tion. Thank you Web­nauts — and — Web Pro World!