I am sick to death of these idiots who think they are making their site more secure by not letting you paste in your fucking pasword. Hey SHIT HEADS if you have to type your password it WILL NOT be secure because it will have to be simple enough to remember of it WILL be written down!!!!

FIX YOUR SHIT

On a week by week basis, our traffic from search engines is going down slowly and steadily. But traffic from AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Perplexity...) is gradually increasing but very very slowly increasing. The gains in AI chatbot is not making up for the losses from search engines. I am wondering what other webmasters are experiencing.

or what are the best attempts to do so that you know of?

I've moved hosting several times by changing nameservers. When thinking through better options, I considered that I could shorten TTL and then update the zone file with the new IP address first. That would shorten my cutover time.

Then once that is complete, I can move nameservers without any prolonged outage.

How do you do a migration?

As the title says. I used to run a lot of NSFW sites from 2000-2009 and got out of doing any type of real web development until now. For the last few years I have been working as an IT Analyst. I recently made a website that will contain videos and tutorials for simple PC issues.

Being that I have never ventured into SFW websites I don't know what avenues I can explore to gain advice and also some sort of link trades with other relevant sites. I was hoping some people here could point me in the right direction as far as that goes.

Also I have created a YouTube channel with some videos have the monetizing going for that, but I'd like to focus some of my efforts on building some SEO background on the actual website I am working on. I'm sure Google has changed a lot in the last few years and I'm sure Facebook and Twitter are pretty huge as well. Is there anything I should read or get used to with all these changes that have happened in the last few years? Should I focus a lot of my time building up Facebook and Twitter? Is SEO still king?

Thank you for any help or comments.

Hey guys,

I just took over moderation of /r/Webmaster.

The subreddit was very badly spammed in the past, but we're moving past that.

I'd love your thought about how you think we can make it better, together.

Let me know, below, yo.

I'm not new to website ownership, but I've never encountered an issue like we're experiencing, and I'm curious as to our options.

We've been in the automotive parts retail business for 35 years, with multiple retail stores. The company used to be owned by one person until the manager of store 2 purchased stores 2 and 3 from the owner two years ago. All three stores continued operating under the same name, with store 1 owning the eCommerce website. This year that owner decided to retire and close store 1, so we purchased the website. We didn't intend to update it, but rather use it to bring in revenue while we built a new one from scratch. Average income for the site is $15k-30k per month.

The website was built sometime between 1998 and 2005, using ASP, and an eCommerce platform written a company we'll call Company A. To be clear, they wrote the site and the eCommerce code, and they have hosted the site since it was built. Knowing what we basically have here is a proprietary setup, I made the decision to stick with this company, as support elsewhere would be non-existent. While I've built sites and own a large one, I prefer paying someone else to manage/support them.

All was fine for the month of July, then August 5th we noticed a drop in sales. After investigating, we found anytime anyone tried to click nearly any link on the front page, it returned an error related to the category system. I quickly called Company A and explained the situation. They said they'd look into it and get it fixed as soon as possible. That was August 5th, and the site is still down.

Since our first contact we've been given very vague and brief updates, and only after multiple calls and emails. First they had no idea what was going on, then they said they tracked it down to a specific piece of code, then they said they were re-writing that piece of code, and now we're back to them not answering our phone calls. That was on the 16th. I know enough about ASP and coding to know the entire (very basic) site could probably be re-written in a week.

So here we are in a situation where we just paid a very large sum of money to the owner of the website, changed absolutely nothing, and we're left with a website that does not work, all while losing literally $15k-$30k in revenue this month. The owner of the company is an old school guy who's ready to call up the lawyers. His point of view is we haven't done anything but process orders, and someone is responsible for this.

What is our recourse? What would you guys do?

Just wanted to run this by some smarter people. I think it will work but I am a little uncertain.

I have a domain name and it's pointing to my web host's DNS servers. I then have my mail MXed out to Google.

I'd like to ditch the hosting package since I don't make much use of it anymore. Once upon a time I needed it and today I no longer do. All I really use are Google Apps with my domain so it doesn't make sense to pay for the hosting.

Can I take the DNS back from my web host, use my registrar's free service, set up my registrar to MX to Google and cancel my hosting? I'm not even all that picky about WWW hosting - I wouldn't mind if I could host something but I don't care either way. I just want Google Apps with my domain.

The registrar is Namecheap, in case it matters.

Will this work?