Oh, hello. Read anything good about green buildings in New York City lately? Care to share a link? This has admittedly been a slow week here at gbNYC, as your editors have been caught up in pre-holiday stress and strain -- I've primarily been preoccupied trying to get Neckies for everyone on my list -- and the news has admittedly not been flowing at its usual pace. That's not really going to change in this post, but I feel the heroic efforts of our intern, Vik Gupta, deserve a pre-holiday mention, especially as his tenure is coming to an end. The guy did a lot of grunt work (not literally, thankfully) to help get gbNYC back into good health, and he deserves a word of thanks for that.
A lot of this is inside baseball, so I'll sum it up quickly. When gbNYC made the move from WordPress to Drupal, we left a lot of important things over at WordPress. And unlike when you're moving from one rental apartment to another, you can't just sneak back in the middle of the night and attempt to steal your couch back through a hole you cut in one of the exterior walls. It's not nearly that easy. And so when a number of posts dating back to 2006 were suddenly without tags -- and thus our shiny new site was full of dead links and nonexistent categories and seemingly disconnected blog entries -- we were kind of screwed. Google essentially de-listed us, traffic dipped, and our "Win Lunch with Stephen Del Percio at Tad's Steaks" promo didn't boost traffic as much as expected.
This is where Vik stepped in and more or less single-handedly retagged nearly four years of blog posts so that our site was once again a viable Internet website, as opposed to some sort of sad philosophical exercise in cyber-alienation in which each of our posts was floating, lonely, in the cold dark chaos of cyberspace. Everything relates again, we're showing up in Google searches again -- by the way: Welcome Google-directed readers! Sorry this post is not really about green buildings in New York City! -- and our traffic is back to where it should be. In short, Vik's unglamorous and generally un-fun work helped get gbNYC back to where we wanted it to be. Stephen and I owe the guy a huge debt of thanks and probably at least an $8 bottle of champagne or something. We wish him good luck in his upcoming tour of exotic global locales/jobs-in-those-locales, and thank him for his hard work, and for affirming all our pre-existing prejudices about how excellent sarcastic-but-hardworking Jersey-raised people are when it comes to this green real estate stuff.
Your regularly scheduled programming will resume again next week. Promise.
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