I had wanted to get off to a great start this weekend with getting traffic to my site, despite having to do my shopping for Christmas, bake cookies, and my grandson not believing in “sleep” lately. Even while I was busy with every thing else I kept thinking about how to get traffic to my site, and could hardly wait until I could get on my computer at night!
Well, it turned out to be a very frustrating weekend. I realized that their was something wrong with my “Twitter” account, then found some other problems with my Firefox browser. So, Friday night I had to uninstall, then reinstall my Firefox browser. Thursday night I had added a lot of students to my blogroll, then Saturday night I added even more students to my blogroll, posted on my blog, added some other links, etc…
This morning my grandson was watching a movie, so I figured I had 10 minutes or so to go online and check my mail and visit a few more of the other students blogs. I was shocked to see that the only thing on my blog was the Name of my blog, and nothing else, the rest was totally blank! I lost a lot of posts, a lot of student links, and some other links I had put on my blog in the last week.
I still have no idea how that could have happened! Anyway, I tried a few little things that didn’t fix it, then I tried to repair it, but that didn’t work either. So, I had to restore everything. I had backed-up my blog a week ago, but a lot of work I did after that back-up is gone. So, tonight I’m going to be adding students back onto my blogroll, and trying a few ways to get traffic.
Needless to say, I wasn’t generating any traffic to my site over the weekend. The earliest I had gone to sleep all week was 4:30am., so I guess doing my back-up was the furthest thing from my mind.
What happened to me could have been avoided if I had kept up with my back-ups. So, please remember to back up your work so you don’t lose it unexpectedly like I did! I know I’ll be remembering to back-up from now on!
I have to go generate some traffic now!
Take care,
Lori James
http://www.everythinghomebiz.com
lorijames@everythinghomebiz.com