November 26, 2007
@ 10:00 AM
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Server timeouts
Apologies to any site visitors who have been experiencing timeouts over the past week.  It appears that having in excess of 1 million jobs in our database over the last 3 months has confused it slightly, we think the problem is related to the way it indexes our keywords. We think we have fixed it but only time will tell.


 
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November 19, 2007
@ 11:26 AM
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Site access issues

Many people who use any of the Host Europe services would have experienced problems accessing our site (and others) over the weekend due to network routing problems on their systems. We had a little panic for a moment when the number of users dropped but now we have investigated the problem we are happy it wasn't with our host. The volume of visitors has picked up again so most of the issues at Host Europe must have been fixed.
 
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November 16, 2007
@ 11:36 AM
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Our best single day so far

Last week we reached a new day record of 384 unique visitors, 96% from Google. Not bad for a site that is 3 months old with only £30 spent on marketing. In fact if you see our previous post at the beginning we had 299 in 2 weeks when we first started.
 
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November 16, 2007
@ 11:34 AM
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Quick Google tip

When checking how many pages you have indexed by Google put this in your Google search "site:www.wisescout.com" but also check without the www eg "site:wisescout.com". I hadn’t been checking this second search and was getting quite concerned (see previous post) why our listings where swinging up and down so much when we have at least 35000 genuinely unique pages. Google is now showing us with about 9500 pages indexed which is a great relief.
 
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November 9, 2007
@ 11:05 AM
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Google Bot – oh how it confuses me

The wonder and mystery of Google has perplexed me again this week. While working on our sitemap I managed to get some more pages listed in our map, within an hour Google Bot had been by and starting to index pages quickly, very quickly (the server got a little bit upset and threw a few timeouts). The result was a jump of indexed pages, in fact it doubled over night to 10500. If that were the end of the story that would be great. It wasn’t and within a day the indexed pages dropped down to 4500, over a 1000 less than we started with. Two days later and every few hours we go up and down between 4500 and 5500.  I presume it must be something to do with duplicated content, as our pages are search results of jobs there is a fair chance that some pages will contain similar results, so the next job is to work out how to get Google Bot to visit more unique pages.


 
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