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Botted?

August 1, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

I’ve been blogging for over 2 years now. Until a few days ago, the maximum number of hits that this blog had absorbed in one day was 149. On 07/29/11, my blogs stats chart zoomed to 291 hits:

After zeroing in on the July 29 date, I discovered that 231 of the hits came from Google:

From looking at the content of the referral links, I’ve concluded that a google bot had crawled the site and extracted/stored a bunch of the dorky images that I post daily. Do you think that’s what happened?

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  1. Plain old everyday ordinary fishead's avatar
    Plain old everyday ordinary fishead
    August 1, 2011 at 9:08 am
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    Sorry about that BD–I added your site to my Google G+ stream, so now you’re famous in another multiverse…

    • bulldozer00's avatar
      bulldozer00
      August 1, 2011 at 5:37 pm
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      No prob POEOF. I’ll take all the traffic I can get – human-wise or bot-wise.

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