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Freelance Web Consultant at architxt.net
14 December 2008 01:23am
Was nice to wake up to a blue sky :)
My first impression is very positive. I was glad to see your homepage change and not read the quote from the Warner Bros. guy for the 10,000th time.
The new interface is clearer, easier to navigate and the new homepage (when logged on) is useful. I like how the logo scrolls down - a good reminder of for first time readers.
I've just updated my profile and think you have done a great job in designing the form. The account section is definitely one of the best I've seen.
The header bit is elegant but I'm wondering whether it will feature any content of any sort. You've given a lot of space to that sky.
Improvements?
Well, apart from seeing more stuff in the header I think you should let some of your padi content free. I don't mean to give away reports but to feature some of the information as (useful) 'bait' on the side, perhaps in a box at the side. No doubt you have tons of market data in your reports you could pick a few stats to show from.
Also, I'm hoping you will explain the ending on your Whoops. page.
CEO at Econsultancy
14 December 2008 08:43am
Glad to hear you like it. It's still settling down and various bits we need to fix. Like not showing the HTML code in the forum posts!
BTW, how did you get your Whoops page?
Ashley
Freelance Web Consultant at architxt.net
14 December 2008 09:25am
I got the Whoops page by clicking on any of the 'most recent reports' links. Eg: http://econsultancy.com/reports/online-transaction-processing-guide
I'm using the latest version of Chrome. In Firefox 3 the link works.
Also, I'm getting an error message when trying toadd my sixth job in my profile:
"Sorry, but we could not submit the form. Please check that you have provided the following details correctly"
Am I limited to the last 5?
CEO at Econsultancy
14 December 2008 14:19pm
Hi Lawrence
Hopefully we've now fixed HTML tags showing in these forum posts. And you shouldn't be getting the error when clicking on any of the most recent reports?
On the jobs - yes, I think we have limited it to 5 but it should be clearer. And actually maybe there should be no limit anyway.
Ashley
Community Architect at Schux
16 December 2008 13:03pm
I noticed that the links from the email content updates didn't work.
Also on the job posts the external links to the companies lead to the wrong place.
And, if you go http://e-consultancy.co.uk/ it says the site is still under maintenance.
CEO at Econsultancy
16 December 2008 14:35pm
Hi Rosie
Thanks for testing. On your first point re. email. That, unfortunately was sent from the old site I think (was it still branded in the old look?). We just hadn't killed off the old site enough apparently! The new look alerts should be operational in the coming days.
On job posts - can you give me an example (I can't find this problem).
On http://e-consultancy.co.uk/ - good spot. Need to redirect that!
Ashley
Marketing Manager at Welcom Software LLP
17 December 2008 10:59am
Hi,
I am I correct in thinking the "also in the forum" section on the homepage lists the details of the poster but when visiting some of the threads they have been posted by 'anonymous'?
Thanks
Andy
CEO at Econsultancy
17 December 2008 11:15am
Hi Andy
Good spot. That's incorrect. If a user posts as anonymous, or has his/her profile set to invisible in the Member Directory, then clearly their details shouldn't show on the homepage like this.
Ashley
Sem Specialist at Ecweb
07 January 2009 15:32pm
Dear all,
I am surprised that I can "see" the pagerank only 3 weeks after the migration.
Usually you can see pagerank after 2 months approx.
Also the amount of indexed pages of e-consultancy today is 7,590 and I remember it was over + 20K.so this is a very fast de-indexing
Then questions:
I think this could be a good case studie about migration preparation, implementation and audit.
Hope someone from econsultancy answers...
Regards.
Ignacio
CEO at Econsultancy
07 January 2009 15:47pm
Hi Ignacio
On Pagerank:
Yes, pretty much all the PageRank appears to have transferred almost immediately *at a page level*. However, this is not yet true of the homepage (which is 3 on the new site at the moment but was 5 on the old site). And, at the moment, we reckon our "domain credibility/authority" has taken a knocking so new pages aren't ranking as quickly as they used to. So our 'long tail' traffic is down on search referrals.
Pages (de)indexed:
Yes, the number of pages indexed on the old site dropped very quickly from over 40,000 to the current 7,000 or so. So the de-indexation was fast.
I'm seeing 26,000+ pages of this new site indexed on Google (http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB291GB303&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:econsultancy.com) and more like 60,000 on Yahoo! (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://econsultancy.com&bwm=p&bwms=p&fr=sfp&fr2=seo-rd-se). So the indexation is happening quite quickly too.
301 redirects
Yes, this is pretty much all that we did. Read my answer to question 9 at http://econsultancy.com/blog/3074-ashley-friedlein-talks-about-the-new-econsultancy-site.
Google / Google Webmaster Tools
No we didn't contact Google about the migration process. I don't think you can? We did verify our new site with a new verification code in Webmaster Tools. And it does tell us about the new indexation. But it hasn't really helped us with anything yet.
Overall
The de-indexation and re-indexation and transfer of PageRank at a page level all seem to have happened very smoothly. However, our search referrals from Google are down at the moment compared to the old site as I imagine Google doesn't yet 'trust' the new domain in the same way it did the old one. We're hoping Google will figure out soon enough that this domain *is* the old one!
Regards
Ashley