View Full Version : Had to Suspend My Site!
The title says it all!
EMPTY CATEGORIES (used to be populated)
TIMING OUT
I've stopped promoting my site now as too many categories or searches are returning no results or timing out. I thought this was just a glitch earlier as there certainly used to be results on some of the main categories.
Having had a quick look around I believe everyone else's sites are doing the same, even shopwindow.com.
Check your sites.....
e.g. http://www.shopwindow.com/category.php?c=387
DigiWin - What's happeneing?
I've noticed these problems for the last few days and was hoping they were just temporary. It certainly seems to be getting worse now though.
I'm pretty down beat about the whole shopwindow thing now, my site is bouncing around the SE rankings because one minute it's all working nicely and on the next crawl half the pages are inaccessible. Google etc. is having a pretty hard time deciding whether my site's worth the effort, and so am I.
Confuscius
09-08-07, 00:45
This is hardly surprising given the uncontrolled way in which Shop Window has been released to so many people and the voracity of certain search engines to eat content. There are simple too many installations submitting requests to the current central installation, effectively rendering ALL sites just about useless.
Having spent some considerable time adding to the basic Shop Window then I, for one, am less than happy that this situation was completely predictable - the train has arrived and we are all standing in the track!
I have a number of ideas that may adress this issue but most involve upsetting some/many people and charging for the service, etc, etc.
I cannot believe that DigiWin are not aware of the performance issue but their communication about current initiatives currently leaves a lot to be desired.
Such a shame.
Paul
Having also put considerable time and effort into a fully customised site to which I am now starting to add original content it pains me to see my site competing for rankings with several dozen basic installs of the shopwindow client, many without a single change to the original code.
Sure, this is partly a frustration with the search engines not seeing these mirror sites for what they really are but I'm also disappointed that AWin have released such a no-brainer option which has paved the way for the search engines to be inundated with dozens of duplicate sites.
Everyone deserves access to this potentially great tool but I think the out-of-the-box client software was a step too far and has compromised the quality of service and results attainable by those of us able and willing to put in a bit of effort.
Confuscius
09-08-07, 11:59
For anyone that may have missed it, the latest info here : http://www.shopwindowforum.com/showthread.php?t=297
Paul