Continuing with updates and overall site maintenance. Been finding and fixing broken links, redirecting links to old files and trying to recover as much of the lost data as possible. What a nasty crash that was but the site is definitely a lot more stable now than it was before.

I've also started looking at the search engine data again. Without actually pulling out a calculator I'm just going to use general numbers but, our peak years so far were 2005 and 2006, where we averaged about 10,000 "unique" visitors a month. In 2004 we were only averaging a few hundred, and somehow we managed to push that to about 10,000 a month and that's pretty crazy I think. I'm going to guess that it has a lot to do with all the movies we uploaded plus everyone sharing the links to the movies on more popular sites and message boards. Then from 2007~2009 it's been at a stable 2000~3000 a month. Not bad considering we hardly ever updated during that period. I'm guessing a large portion of that might be spam bots though..or maybe even all of it..haha.

What baffles me is that even after the site crashed and when I scrambled to re-upload all the data, the following month the page visitor count jumped back up to over 2000. The month of the crash, June 2009, the page views registered at only 400. So that's why I'm guessing it's just spam bots, plus a bunch of these other sites linking to our songs.

One of the top search terms this month is "ride that dog". If you look it up on google in quotes, you'll see the RIA site on page 1 (as of the time of this posting). Good stuff.

Most of the stuff for the main site is done now, but I'm still working on the About section and the Links section. Managed to get the Eye of Mordica data back, so I'm working on cleaning up that section too. As well as just continuing to recover lost data and also setting up the new message board.