A month has past since I made a change to my WordPress templates to experiment with Google bot (see previous post) and I can proudly report that it works like a charm. My original problem was that Google was returning search results pointing to index-style pages on my Blog instead of the post’s themselves. These index pages like Categories & Archives would quickly update and the majority of visitors coming Read More...
In my previous post ‘Blogs are fundamentally flawed…‘ I noted an observation that more often than not search results would direct a user to an index-style page containing the post instead of directly to the ‘permalink’ location of the post. This leads to a poor user-experience from the visitor’s point of view, on busy blogs the post has almost certainly moved since the page was spider’d. Google in particular appeared Read More...
It may seem a little sad but I can honestly say that reading my access_log is far more interesting than any soap opera on TV; they are filled with exotic foreigners, futuristic robots, drama, intrigue and personal tragedy. The best thing about it is that it’s all real; these are (mostly) real people who stumble across your humble Blog in the hope to find the solution to their problems. Over Read More...
Having written my own WordPress logging / statistics plug-in over the weekend – which still in prototype, consider it a ‘coming soon’ – I have started to notice more and more peculiar User-Agents visiting my blog. I quite like to keep an eye on what spiders / bots visit my sites, how often they return and try to infer something about how they were designed by watching them visit. I Read More...