Holiday Mayhem

By Ossface

I decided, (in my infinite wisdom) to make major changes to my site to try to get my page rank back up to pr3, (my site has dropped a page rank for some reason from 3 to 2) the day before going on holiday for 2 weeks in France. Luckily we were staying at my in-laws house who have moved over to France, (call that luck?) anyway, after a 13 hour journey we arrived at my in-laws house & paid them for our stay in curry sauces, naan breads, teabags, baked beans & paracetamol tablets, (you'll never believe the prices of those items over there) & switched on their computer to check Google Webmaster Tools. To my horror I noticed that I had major warnings about my sitemap! In a fit of panic I rang my neighbour's house & gave them instructions on how to change my sitemap, about 30 minutes later, I received a phone call from them saying that my computer would not start! Oh dear, I thought, (cannot print what I actually thought) so in a fit of panic I suggested to my wife that we go back to the UK to sort it out, "calm down" she replied, (it's ok for her, she was not running about like a headless chicken) "can you not create another sitemap while being in France?" why didn't I think of that? so, straight away I went online & purchased the same site map creator I use in the UK, this cost me around $50.00 but it was cheaper than paying for around 2 tanks of diesel for the car & 2 ferry crossings. Ok, I have now downloaded my site map creator & hopefully made the major repairs to my site map. I was about to resubmit my sitemap to Google when I realised that I had not FTP'd my sitemap to my site, (idiot!) so I luckily got a free FTP program, sent it to my site, published my site & re-submitted it to Google. After around 1 hour I checked my sitemap with Google & everything was fine, (what a relief) so I decided to celebrate with a bottle or two of red wine. Isn't it amazing how, after a couple of drinks you remember all sorts of things? the first thing I remembered was, I did not need to purchase the site-map creator anyway because I still had the download link for my original one in my email inbox & the reason for my computer not starting was because I had unplugged all the various things that get warm even when the computer is not in use! So, if you are intending to go on holiday / vacation try to make your major changes to your site well before you go away, otherwise you also may well be hogging your in-laws or friends computer for some time. Anyway, thanks to Aubrey & Dianne, (my in-laws, (they are called in-laws because outlaws are wanted)) for your patience & putting up with us for so long. About the author
Been attempting webmastery for A1 Ebooks Online for almost one long year. Never realised how daunting SEO can get.