What happened to the mass deletion?
Today's hot topics...- Deletion engine
- Renderosity
- Spanish website
- technorati
Deletion engine
Avid readers will know about the deletion engine. So there I was, braced for a huge fall in member numbers, but for some reason it didn't happen. I'm going to get on to Eamonn about this as it's either me getting the wrong end of the stick, or something has broken.
In fact, traffic has been surging in the past few days. A few weeks ago we improved the Googleability of the pages - mainly the profiles and the forums. Well it seems that this has been picked up by Google, who are now delivering more and more visitors per day.
Renderosity
A while back I also mentioned an agreement I was working on with Renderosity, the arts community. On Friday we came to a formal arrangement, so now I'm really looking forward to getting some cross promotion going. To have access to a community like this will be so important in breaking the official world record, which I really want achieve over the Christmas break.
We're going to try and get a mail out to all Renderosity members next week, before the US Thanksgiving weekend.
Spanish website
I never thought translating a website would be so difficult. I've found out that the Spanish language roughly doubles the length of any English sentence, which plays havoc with the layout of a website. Also, the amount of hidden text within a site is extraordinary (think error messages, confirmation emails etc etc). It's taken two weeks longer just to get the text on the site but we're finally there - see a sneak preview here.
Technorati
I try not to be swayed too much by stats, but I'm really quite annoyed with technorati. My old blog address (thepaulfisherblog.com) had a good number of incoming links and was rated well by technorati. I had to change the address due to server problems, but made sure I properly redirected the domain. Unfortunately my technorati rating has plunged, as has my Google PR.
Why am I bothered? I don't know? I watch the major site indicators regularly because of the OMM and I think I'm just becoming obsessed.
posted by Paul Fisher @ 4:32 pm
1 Comments:
Hi jay.
The project is being sponsored by an excellent company called London Translations who have performed all the text translation for us. The next step was to create the necessary php code that would decide whether the English or Spanish text should be inserted into the pages.
We could have simply duplicated the entire site and replaced all the text, but because the site is very complexe and conatins a ton of pages duplication would have been a nightmare.
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