Doesn’t really make sense financially all things considered. Plus there goes all my nostalgia happy. Guess everything fades in time though.

Nothing but a blank screen. It looks like they got hacked, wow. I would have never guessed.

I don’t understand why Maki would simply delete his website like this. It’s kinda like burning down a business that you built with patience and hard-work. Even if something did happen to Maki (God forbid) wouldn’t the website still remain in place? Did someone force or threaten him to delete his website?

We may never know.

But about a month or two ago I visited doshdosh.com and saw that the site had been horribly hacked … had lots of unsavory drug ads, links to porn sites, etc. And now it’s gone? So sad.

I can clearly see taking a break, especially for something as important as finishing a degree .. but just to abandon a property that valuable? Mind boggling.

A freind who runs a web hosting company once had a fellow who was hosting a motorcycle foum on his server decide to just quit. The motorcycle guy said to my freind, “I’m bored, if you want my URL and site, take it, otherwise delete it.”

Now, about three years later that mortocycle forum makes about $18,000 a month, way more thna the web hosting company does.

Quit if you will, but don’t throw away what you already built. is my advice.

archive.org, the Internet Wayback Machine.

Since the HubSpot Social Media Marketing Kit is being actively pushed by HubSpot, perhaps it would be best to edit the mention of doshdosh.com from the webinar.

Broken Link Checker is a great plugin to keep your site clean of broken links.

Sorry about DoshDosh, I will create some awareness about this as well in my blog.

If the site is deindexed, the return of the readership after the site gets back on will be just like any new site. But since doshdosh is already popular people will get back immediately to the site if they know it is online.

Fingers crossed.

Jane.

Thank you Harsh. Will check the plugin.

I too noticed that doshdosh.com was deindexed. Will the sites traffic return to normal if the site gets back?

My blogs lost around 2000 visitors per day for being down for some time once. And then again most of it because the blog is currently inactive I guess 🙁

Thank you Daniel. I will try it out.

It’s a good practice indeed to clean your website from dead links every 6 months or so. You can use a tool called “Xenu” (just Google it) to find those dead links.

The blog usually shows a blank page like that when you didn’t update its latest version or when a plugin is out of date and you forget to upgrade it.

Nothing to do with hacking IMO. Anybody who’d have got access to it, would at least re-direct to a domain parking or landing page, right?

Daniel, what about sites you linked in your old posts that are dead now? I have links to dead sites on my blog, so I am wondering what I should do. How can we find these links to remove?

About DoshDosh.com, just yesterday I visited the site and found it was showing a blank page and I was surprised. I really liked Makis blog and hope he returns.

Got it.
I was not thinking about “non-existent site”. I was looking at a site which is “temporarily down”.
Also I feel, once we declare rel=nofllow, Google should not be bothered to check its existence (that will save time of their spiders on other hand)

Yes I think it’s different. Linking with nofollow means there is a website on the other end, but you can’t endorse its content (or it was an advertising deal). Linking to a website that is non-existent, on the other hand, is a bad thing even if you put a nofollow tag on the link.

Do you think if “linking with rel=nofollow” and “not linking at all” are different from Google search engine’s perspective?

The comment from costa is enough informative. Blog was hacked and may be data had been erased so Maki should have lost his interest.

Hope the blog can recover soon, or I have to remove a lot of dead links of it. 🙁

He has not Tweeted since June 2010.

Hoping all is well.

That’s the thing with the internet: you could technically leave no trace.

Yeah I saw the source code of his page too. That is why I said it’s like someone just dropped a blank page there.