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History
of this Web Site: |
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1 October 2006 -
www.diy-computer-repair.com and www.diy-computer-repair.net
domain names registered (These domain names are registered by copy right to M&P Russell
Enterprises LLC!) |
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| 3 January 2007 - Moved from
old host to new hosting company sitesell.com |
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| 1 February 2007 - Created the
About the owner of www.diy-computer-repair.com page... :) |
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| 15 April 2007 - Web site
passed 100 pages of content |
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| 15 October 2007 - Web site
passed 300 pages of content, Google says good job gives site a PR 1! |
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| 15 January 2008 - Published
first DIY Computer Repairs E-Book |
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February
2008 - 1st issue of Fix It! newsletter issued |
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| 25 March 2008 - First major
redesign of web site using CSS and added third column to some pages. |
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| 28 September 2008 - Google
increases Page Rank to PR 2! |
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1 January 2009 - Initiated
Q and A forum for the web site
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| 10 March 2009 - Second
Edition of DIY Computer Repairs E-book published |
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| 1 June 2009 - Published
Build a Custom PC E-book |
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| 21 October 2009 - Q and A
Forum passes 100 submissions |
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| 5 Nov 2009 - Google increases
Page Rank to PR 3! |
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| 10 December 2009 - Publish
two E-Books -
Build a Server |
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Upgrade Your Computer |
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| 10 February 2010 - Add new
section to web site:
DIY Insiders (Closed 08-18-17, too sad...) |
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| 1 June 2010 - Publish
Self Computer Repair Unleashed
E-Book, retire DIY Computer Repairs E-book |
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| 15 July 2010 - Publish
Windows 7 Ultimate E-Book |
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| 20 August 2010 -
Fix It Blog open for business |
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| 25 October 2010 -
- Q and A Forum
passes 300 submissions |
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| 1 January 2011 -
www.diy-computer-repair.com web site surpasses 700 pages |
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| 25 February 2011 - Google
Panda/Farmer algorithm causes a drop in web site Page Rank to PR2! |
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| 1 May 2011 - Complete
redesign of web site |
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12 June 2011 - Google likes
new design gives back Page Rank of PR 3 |
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09 December 2011 -
www.diy-computer-repair.com web site surpasses 800 pages! |
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| 21 April 2012 -
Penguin
by
Google has hit this site, traffic has dropped dramatically... |
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01 June 2012 - Penguin by
Google has cause the traffic on this site to drop by 90% to recover from
this problem I have closed my blog: www.fix-it-blog.com |
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| 02 July 2012 - Add the
Advanced section to the web site, moving content from old blog in to six
categories when completed. |
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09 July 2012 -
Add a blog called Fix It Blog to this web site instead of a sub domain
that didn't work anyway. |
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31 July 2012 - Release new
e-book DIY Computer Repairs Manual - 2nd Edition: The Non-Geek Approach To
Computer Repairs Dropped... |
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| 12 August 2012 - Add new section to the web
site
Advanced Computer Repair Techniques |
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| 01 September 2012 - The
Fix It Blog is back in business on this site. |
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12 October 2012 -
Release new e-book Self
Computer Repair Unleashed! 2nd Edition The second edition of my best
selling Self Computer Repair Unleashed with technology up dates and more
information. Retire
Self Computer Repair Unleashed v.1 |
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| 22 October 2012 - Added another section to the Advanced Computer Repair
Techniques for
Servers. |
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01 November 2012 - Retired the DIY Computer Repairs Manual
-2nd Edition, too much competition from my newer Self Computer Repair
Unleashed! 2nd Edition. |
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15 November 2012 - Pressing on with the renovation of
this web site, still haven't found out what Google wants from the web
site to recouped the lost traffic. |
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1 January 2013 - Stopped giving away small checklists and
guides once a month, although my newsletter readers like them they do
not enhance my product sells... |
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05 February 2013 - My site has suffered another drop in
traffic and my DIY Insiders web site sales also suffered dramatically. |
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15 May 2013 - Added a video tutorial CD to
my products line: 6 DIY
Computer Repair Videos! (Dropped, no intrest?) |
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| 28 May 2013 - Seems that
things have leveled out after a year, traffic is steady but very low.
Still can't find what Google is seeing to cause the drop in page rank... |
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| 04 June 2013 - Dropped the
video tutorials, no buyers, may bring them back when traffic picks up. |
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| 18 Oct 2013 - SBI (Site Sell) has done a
comprehensive study that gives tips on what to do, and what to NOT do
when renovating web site. Traffic has increased slightly... |
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| 11 Nov 2013 - Finished
cleanup and rebuild of web site, await Google's reaction... |
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| 12 Feb 2014 - It has been around 90 days
since the rebuild, traffic has gone up some but it is very inconsistent,
some days over 400 unique visitors, some days less than 200...
Considering closing it down. :( |
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| 09 Apr 2014 - Now about five months
after completing the clean up of this site, submitting numerous emails
to web sites to remove their links to this site. Sending emails to
Google asking for a re-evaluation and so forth the traffic is still low,
considering moving the web site and doing a rename. Hate to lose this
one but the traffic problem is not curable with known SEO practices... |
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| 20 Aug 2014 - A few answers
from Google about the lack of traffic, seems that this site needs to
"improve" it's quality of information presented. Bing says I have over
600 pages with errors, it doesn't like the noarchive tag that keeps
someone from archiving my web site on theirs... Repairs in progress,
traffic still 90% less than 2012... |
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| 18 Oct 2014 - Closed web site
classiccarparts.com, low revenue from this site forces me to drop the
site after eight years. Too bad I really liked that site. |
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| 1 Nov 2014 - Complete site
improvement for "quality of information", removed the noarchive tag so
the thieves can copy my work with out worry, improved and corrected code
to comply with HTML 5 standards, and a few other things. No improvement
from Google or Bing in traffic, now fighting with plagiarizers that copy
my content [sigh]... |
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| 3 Dec 2014 - Complete rename
of pages that do not "comply" with Google standards for naming [???],
now in the progress of changing links from old names to new names. |
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| 15 Jan 2015 - About 50% done
with the name change of pages and link clean up work, Google doesn't
like the changes, traffic has dropped in comparison with 2012 by 30%.
However Bing is showing a slight improvement and less than 100 pages
with errors. The work continues... |
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| 1 Mar 2015 - Google announces
a new algorithm: "Mobile Friendly"... Once again I have to modify over
800 pages to please Google or keep losing traffic which is down by 75%
due to the last round of "updates". Conversion in progress, some pages
are done... |
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| 14 April 2015- "Mobile
Friendly" conversion and new template complete, a few visitors say the
new layout is much better, Bing agrees, traffic up 10% and web page
errors down a whopping 75%! |
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| 1 May 2015 - My traffic has
dropped another 30%, no reason from Google as to why, however my Bing
traffic is up 46% for the same period, so much for getting the "mobile
friendly" bump for this web site. |
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| 1 June 2015 - The old domain
name www.diy-computer-repair.com has gone away and the new domain name
www.diycomputerrepairs.com
will replace it, sorry to see it go but Google has something against it,
the saying is: "No traffic, No SALES!" selling a book once every
three months will not pay the rent on this web site. |
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| 05 June 2015 - Mobile
conversion is complete, now if someone uses a smaller device (such as a
smartphone) that the display is less than 480 pixels wide they will be
able to read the content and repair their normal computer... This comes
with a caveat
or two - some of the images and tables will not display on such a small
video screen. |
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| 25 Nov 2015 - Bing has yet to
index any pages in the new domain www.diycomputerrepairs.com, I
contacted Bing Support and they tell me there was a glitch (technical
failure) when I registered the new domain name and it will be three to
five weeks before any pages will show up in their search return pages... |
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| 03 Jan 2016 - I now have 390
pages indexed by the Bing Search Engine. |
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| 09 Jan 2016 - Bing is now
sending traffic to this web site, not much but better than none at all!
My total indexed pages has risen to 680 pages, this is great, although
the traffic is still very low. |
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| 1 June 2017 - Google traffic
is at zero, Bing traffic is not any better. Closing this site down:
diycomputerrepairs.com and moving the site to another hosting
company: mine. The old index page will remain in place until the
subscription runs out. A great company to get started with is SBI or
Solo Build IT... |
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| 31 Aug 2017 - The web site
has been renamed to www.diy-computer-repair.net, when the old
original site was brought on line I parked this domain for over ten
years not doing anything with the domain. On 1 June 2017 I activated the
domain and moved the web site to a new hosting service. |
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| 1 Oct 2017 - Added the
Fix It
Blog, there will be a Q and A forum coming soon... (that is as
soon as I figure out how to make one work on wordpress!) Have a look - all
comments welcome! |
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| 1 Dec 2018 - I have found a new search
engine that I think is an alternative to the gaggle god:
Active
Search Results (ASR) and have added my two web sites, will have
to wait to see if it is as advertised or another con job...
Update 10-04-21, due to the fact that part of the
"points" a web site gets from ASR is for "social networking" and I DO
NOT USE social networking so no points, I have removed my sites from
the ASR directory... |
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| 15 June 2019 - The web sites
are there, traffic is low but steady, still haven't added them to Google
or Bing as of yet, need to wait at least two years with the new name
before submitting them. |
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| 10 Oct 2019 - The blog was
hacked, don't know how it happened but all the sudden I have links to
some off the wall web site, the blog has been shut down until I can
figure out how to lock it down and still have readers comment. |
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| 10 Dec 2019 - I have found a
way to lock down the web sites however it will force me to move from the
old Windows 2003 Server Operating System to a newer version. |
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| 06 Feb 2020 - After two
months of learning, experimenting, frustration, and numerous reloads of
Windows Server 2008 R2 this web site and the
Fix It
Blog are on the new server and operational. |
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| 21 Jan 2021 - Just had the
bad news: HTTP will no longer be indexed by the more popular search
engines, HTTPS only... working on a major revision to the host server
and this web site, work in progress... |
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| 01 May 2021 - Well the cost of this web site
just went up by about 250 USD because my current Operating System for
hosting this web site and the Fix It Blog will not support two separate
site installations for the port required for HTTPS, I need to upgrade
the OS on this server. The Fix It Blog will be down until the OS
arrives, is installed and the problems for two sites on one port are
solved... |
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| 15 May 2021 - The order for
my new spiffy Windows Server 2016 R2 cancelled: NOT IN STOCK! this is
taking longer than I want, but this web site is almost complete for the
upgrade to HTTPS, the thing is I have to go back and re-accomplish all
the work again for the new OS. |
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| 1 June 2021 - .Found a brand
new Windows Server 2016 with 10 Cals... It is installed and partially
operational. With IIS 8+ you can have more than one web site using port
443 for HTTPS. |
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| 5 June 2021 - The IIS 10
config is taking a little longer than it should considering how much
time it took to do IIS 7.5. The firewall service is giving me fits
(literally, my Wife wonders if I have finally gone around the bend, I am
always talking - to myself... But now it is up and running. Still doing
some changes, oooppppss reload the OS from image, don't want to do that.
Found out that you can backup the firewall settings, that is a large
help. My email server is having connecting problems, need to fix that. |
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| 9 June 2021 - Miracles
never cease! Whoa - Fix It Blog is back on line and has the same look as
it did with the old IIS 6 web host. A few more things to fix and then
start putting the content back on. Sometimes you are given a lemon, well
make lemon aid, the hack of the blog then the hard drive fail has moved
me to invest a little more in the hosting computer and upgrade the OS
and IIS... |
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| 07-June-21 - Hosting your own
web server and web sites takes a lot of work... I was looking through my
web site activity logs when I noticed this site was getting a lot of
attention. Well from the looks of what the robot or bot was looking set
off an alarm... Two bots were only indexing images, and a lot off them
(I have over 2600 images and most of them I made! What to do... Why
block them from downloading the images of course. But how? (I have
temporarlly taken the blog off line, see below...) |
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| 17 June 2021 -
Both
www.diy-computer-repair.net and
fix-it-blog.diy-computer-repair.net are back on line, in the
progress of doing updates on the main site and adding posts to the blog.
If all goes well between now and August I will submit them to Bing for
indexing. And then the fun begins: I need to update all my publications
to reflect the new name, do some updating for hardware in a few and a
major overhaul of the
Self
Computer Repair Unleashed! 2nd Edition I have a couple of ideas
on what I need to do... |
| 09-17-21 - Bing is indexing
this site and the blog, the blog however is still a learning process, I
have a few errors and warnings in the Bing webmaster tools to
work out. Maybe the traffic will pick up now... |
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| 04 October-21 Bing will not index
this site, I have ran this site since 2007 and it was indexed by Bing;
so the reason for de-indexing has to be the blog, which is set as a
sub-domain of this web site. So to find out what and fix the site it has
to be removed from the web. I may bring it back as a separate web site
and not a sub-domain of this web site which would be better. |
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| 08 November 21 Due to Bing
de-indexing this site it has been off line, I will give the Bing search
engine a little more time and then re-apply for indexing, if Bing does
index this site again I will know that the blog was the problem other
wise will have to look closely at the SEO of this site and try to figure
out what is wrong... |
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| 1 January 2022 - I have been working on
finding a solution to my HTTPS problem. It is a two fold problem: the
server OS I have supports SSL (Secure Sockets Layer a security protocol)
that all web sites use to connect with HTTPS. The issue I have currently
is that the IIS ver 7 (Internet Information Server) allows only ONE
protocol to be active at a time,. That means that Server 2012 will
not help me with having a HTTP and HTTPS web site. |
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| 1 January 2023 - There may be liht at the
end of the tunnel, I found a Server 2016 to Cal license for $90 USD,
will begin to set it up as soon as it arrives! |
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| 6 April 2023 - Server 2016 has what I need
for HTTP and HTTPS, two web sites running from one server. Great, well
maybe... |
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| 12 December 2023 - My incursion into the SSL
realm was a learning experience. By that I mean I have to learn two or
three more computer languages. Time consuming and a little frustrating -
it seems that very few people write what they know, they seem to copy
what is already available... use be balled plagiarism....And the
Internet Gods didn't like it... |
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| 09 August 2024 - After all the work to set
up SSL on this web site I can not get the correct wording (syntax) to
get the SSL Certificate to renew every 90 days.... Working on it so
until I can figure out how to word the renewal script this site will
stay on HTTP.... |
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| 09 November 2025 - Well after some time
(over a year) testing loosing access by doing too many tests to
frequently, and a littel help from the company that hosts this web site
name (DNSExit.com) I have correctly wrote the script that this server
uses to update the Certificate for HTTPS and SSL. |
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| 10 November 2025 0 This web site has be
active for over 24 hours with out any HTTPS or SSL errors or problems... |
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