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1800 Visitors, and Nobody Said a WordBy Will Bontrager Bear with me, please, while I set this up. We have a web site where a certain kind of folks come for free numerology readings. It's a fairly popular site, delivering 200-300 free numerology profiles every day. For years, both affinity-numerology.com and affinitynumerology.com pointed to the same web site. Well, I decided, so long as we're paying for the domain name anyway, I might as well start a numerology articles site with affinitynumerology.com, let the two domains be independent of each other. The new site would be on the new hosting account at Site5, [note: we no longer recommend Site5] and the other one would be moved over later. I ensured that all interlinking was to the hyphenated domain name. Then changed the DNS of the articles domain name. Little did I know that the software that delivers the free readings was retrieving the readings template using a non-hyphenated domain name URL. Eight days later, I needed to check the logs at the new hosting account and noticed an extraordinary number of 404's. The sites on this server are mostly new and don't yet get a lot of traffic. So why all the 404's? Each 404 was for the readings template. "Uh, oh," I thought, "something's not quite right in affinity-land." Then I realized what happened. Or, rather, what had not happened. I had neglected to check the template URL in the software's control panel. After that was corrected, I wondered why nobody used the "contact" link (located at the bottom of every page on the site) to report the problem. I'm estimating 1800-2000 visitors came to the site, and most of them were, most likely, there to get their free numerology reading. Why did not one of those 1800 people report the problem? That's right, the contact form was submitting to the non-hyphenated domain name. November 5, 2005 Please note: Articles on this website are presented "as is". However - If you have a question about a CGI script, HTML, CSS, PHP, or JavaScript
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