During August Google started re-indexing its index of websites using the new Algorithum coded named 'Caffeine' - Using our principle keywords our search position on Google began to wobble to say the least and hits to our website www.a-break-in-normandy.com suddenly crashed! This was then complicated that following one particular googlebot cache our site was deemed to be banned and cannot be found on any search patterns what so ever even though the site still exists, can be found at its usual URL and ranks on page one for most other search engines such as Bing, Yahoo and MSN - I have subsequently discovered my site was hacked by some unknown person or persons and the only action they committed was to add a number of empty files into the websites site structure. My appologies to customers the site is still there but Google deems us unworthy after 8 years of success.
Our sister site www.labourdonnerie.com has also had its problems. My analysis of the problem is that Google is re-indexing sites using the new Caffeine algorithum but customers are only able to search using the old Google search engine. This is causing anomalies and will continue to until Google makes the updated Caffeine Search Engine fully public. The example is that following googlebot cache of 30th September our placing for our primary search words crashed from 9th, Page 1 to 89th, Page? - but using the beta vesion of Google Caffeine Search Engine our placing remained at 9th, Page 1. Four days later our placing on old Google search engine recovered to 11th Page 2 while on Caffeine beta there was no change. In these last four days our hitcounter and possibly our bookings have suffered.
PLEASE GOOGLE MAKE CAFFEINATED SEARCH ENGINE LIVE TO THE PUBLIC - YOUR RE-INDEXING - ADJUSTMENTS - AND TESTING BETA SEARCH ENGINES IS CAUSING SMALL BUSINESSES PROBLEMS - HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR THEM!
Friday, 9 October 2009
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Loitiers - the story so far
The saga continues:
During 2008 we have successfully completed the restoration of the ground floor of the property to a bright and airy open plan lounge and dining room with two contemporary fireplaces and finally replaced that bloody old front door.
Since July we have been stuggling to come to terms with the flood prevention works alongside the adjoining barn, hopefully the culverting and replacement culvert pipe and the rear garden retaining wall will mean the end of the continual threat of winter flooding of the adjoining barn.
Sunday, 13 April 2008
WELCOME TO THE NEW BREAK IN NORMANDY BLOG
Hello and welcome to the new Normandy Gites (a-break-in-normandy) blog.
This year in July it will be ten years since we arrived in Normandy. We bought the derelict farm La Bourdonnerie that had not been lived in for 25 years with over three acres of overgrown wilderness. There was no mains water, no toilet and the electricity was not only inadequate but dangerous. Our first priority was getting the main farmhouse habitable. By October 1998 we had toilets, running hot water, a shower, a basic electrical circuit and some heating. Concreate floors had been poured and wooden floors replaced and new double glazed windows fitted to the facade. But we still did not have a fully functioning bathroom or kitchen. Those had to wait till spring 1999.
In Autumn 1999 we decided to start converting our first gite from the barn that originally housed a Cider Press. Le Pressoir was finished with it's first guest installed for Easter 2000.
The following spring of 2001 La Vacherie was completed and accepting guests. It was at this point that we joined the internet generation and switched from newspaper and magazine advertising to check out the potential of this new fangled computer thing - we have never looked back.
While we were converting La Lapiniere during the winters of 2002 and 2003 we started renting the main farmhouse Le Lavoir. La Lapiniere was completed and rented for Easter 2004.
During this period our eyes became bigger than our commen sense and we bought the adjacent derelict farm in the Hamlet of L'Epesse and we have been restoring that ever since while successfully renting out La Bourdonnerie as holiday lets .
In our new blog we hope to keep customers and interested parties up to date with developments in the gite business that is La Bourdonnerie - Maisons de Vacances.
This year in July it will be ten years since we arrived in Normandy. We bought the derelict farm La Bourdonnerie that had not been lived in for 25 years with over three acres of overgrown wilderness. There was no mains water, no toilet and the electricity was not only inadequate but dangerous. Our first priority was getting the main farmhouse habitable. By October 1998 we had toilets, running hot water, a shower, a basic electrical circuit and some heating. Concreate floors had been poured and wooden floors replaced and new double glazed windows fitted to the facade. But we still did not have a fully functioning bathroom or kitchen. Those had to wait till spring 1999.
In Autumn 1999 we decided to start converting our first gite from the barn that originally housed a Cider Press. Le Pressoir was finished with it's first guest installed for Easter 2000.
The following spring of 2001 La Vacherie was completed and accepting guests. It was at this point that we joined the internet generation and switched from newspaper and magazine advertising to check out the potential of this new fangled computer thing - we have never looked back.
While we were converting La Lapiniere during the winters of 2002 and 2003 we started renting the main farmhouse Le Lavoir. La Lapiniere was completed and rented for Easter 2004.
During this period our eyes became bigger than our commen sense and we bought the adjacent derelict farm in the Hamlet of L'Epesse and we have been restoring that ever since while successfully renting out La Bourdonnerie as holiday lets .
In our new blog we hope to keep customers and interested parties up to date with developments in the gite business that is La Bourdonnerie - Maisons de Vacances.
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