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Lots of new visitors from search engines
High Site Load & Optimizations for
Site Newsletter - Release Date: 10/15 07
It's been busy lately! Actually, we've been getting over 13,000 click throughs per day from search engines this last week from mostly customers. This is many times more that we were receiving prior to about a month ago. It's been increasing steadily. A few weeks ago we started getting about 8,000 per day and that was causing intermittant server overload – we were already almost at capacity. It then started hitting 10,000 and they were mostly clicks from Google searches. It's now gone to 13,000/day this weekend as Yahoo has started sending a consistant few thousand per day since last week! We're getting noticed! Smile for the camera! 
I've done almost nothing since this started BUT to improve the site's speed and high-load handling through lots of software changes. The optimizations have helped quite a bit, as many common pages now take a half to a third of the time to generate as they did before, but now with even more daily visitors, there are times when the site does start to slow down. The site code now detects this slowness and progressively stops trying to generate the hardest types pages, so the basic site pages and event details pages all stay available. Minor improvements to server hardware like a thousand or two dollars of ram may help a bit, but I can't even consider that with my finances. Truly, many thousands of dollars of new servers are what's needed as the 100,000 pages a day we now generate require 6 machines doing web and database, but thinking that coming to fruition soon is laughable. I already can't even pay all my other bills. Currently about 5 out of 6 of the few full members earn it instead of paying and only about 30 events out of the 10,000 we are advertising are paying right now for upgrades. If I had more funds I could do so much MORE: make the site faster, have more events actively added by us, get some professional help, etc. That's what's going on here!
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Much more contributions, help, and support are needed - by orders of magnitude!
Help today to enable me to be able to help everyone that this info and site can help more fully. Drastic efforts are needed today FOR tomorrow!
You see what has already been done with so little to start. What can become of this site/resource if I wasn't working alone at it? If I could code more instead of fighting server-slow/down-wild-fires? If I wasn't the only person seeking out new events to add to our database?
There are a few things that everyone here should do, that are easy to do, that will benefit them directly, but that almost no one IS doing:
EVERYONE NEEDS TO:
* Start using our Google gadget. WHY?: http://www.craftlister.com/api/google_modules/
* Re-display our listings on YOUR site: Why?: http://www.craftlister.com/help/link_to_us.php?ShowOtherSitesWithOurListings=TRUE&ShowReferersAtTop=TRUE
What else can you do? Should you do?:
I've added a 'My Goals / U Help Site' and and linked it from the footer of the site and here:
http://www.craftlister.com/help/goals.php
It details HOW you can HELP, if you care to. Including:
Using our Google event search gadget/module
Displaying our event listings on your site!
Referring friends
Adding event listings and event comments
Telling promoters and exhibitors about EventLister.com
Printing and distributing Handouts
Educating yourself and others – our newsletters and articled are printable and re-publishable
Louy
800-568-2634 ( cell )
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Amongst the goals is more uses of our 'local event list' Google 'Gadget' that I am trying to get exposure for:
Google allows developers to submit content in the form of what they call 'Gadgets' that their users can choose from to have appear on their iGoogle homepage or on their Google Desktop. Google has a directory of available gadgets that users can select from – and gadgets need to have a critical number of hundreds or thousands of users to appear in the directory and a much higher usage rate to appear anywhere worth while. To have Google users see the EventLister.com local event list gadget as an AVAILABLE gadget to them, more people must start using our gadget on their own. Again: To have more CUSTOMERS see our, your, event listings, by having them see and so be able to select and use our content gadget, ALL ARTISTS AND PROMOTERS SHOULD USE OUR GOOGLE GADGET so it ranks high enough to be included in their browsable gadget directory.
ADD our gadget to your Google homepage by clicking here: http://fusion.google.com/add?moduleurl=http://www.eventlister.com/api/google_modules/event_search.xml
Or add the gadget directly by it's xml url:
http://www.eventlister.com/api/google_modules/event_search.xml
TELL OTHERS – CUSTOMERS, EXHIBITORS, PROMOTERS to also use the gadget!
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