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J from Michigan
12-17-2011, 02:09 PM
How often/thoroughly do you check landing pages, links, search results, etc...?
- I do as often as I can (read: at least once a day.)

Last weekend I noticed that when I clicked on my search result link, my page 'could not be displayed.'
- called tech support, with my domain name
- they entered it into the address bar, and it popped up no problem
- we than start to focus on my computer




** lightbulb **


I ask the tech to do a search, and go through from there... nothing.
Turns out, I had let my SSL expire, and my pages went from "httpS" to "http."
- this meant that search engines would direct people to inactive landing pages... slowly killing my credibility with each click.

It was a quick fix, I simply re-secured the site.
But if I hadn't checked, and been thorough with the tech guy... I may have never noticed that my SEO was completely useless!!

AshleyWhiteBusiness
12-27-2011, 02:38 AM
I sorry to hear that but I am glad that all is well now. I often check once a week but thanks to you. Thank you for reminding us to have a quick check everyday :)

stevie0040
12-28-2011, 02:34 PM
Have you tried a website monitoring site? I don't use it anymore because our website is pretty stable but when I did the free trial period for my site with hyperspin.com I got reports like:

1. Bluehost
- uptime: 0.000%
- downtime: 7day 00hr 00min
- outage: 1

2. Proax
- uptime: 100.000%
- downtime: 00min
- outage: 0

3. medialayer
- uptime: 100.000%
- downtime: 00min
- outage: 0