“ Launching a new system takes time.”
No it doesn’t, that is a myth‘
I agree. Incompetence and/or the left is attacking the site with bots and humans.
No the problem may been hiring Nunes instead of someone with experience in Tech and solving problems. This should have been as seamless as possible, not a cluster*ck. No excuses. Not enough capacity , etc.. none of this should have been a huge problem. Makes Trump look bad in a way.
Temporarily nulling the SEO BOT access would stop 90% of that until things settle down a bit. But for some reason it is a false unwritten rule that you cannot operate a site at all without all the SEO ware running or allowing hidden BOT access serving up metadata.
I have never used SEO ware and always turn off all BOT access and still get to the top of the search engine results in a few weeks. A site this popular could turn it all off forever and still always be at the top of the search results. Spiders and crawlers share with each other.
Yep, someone is milking this project or like you say incompetent.