JimWorld Forums: visitors vs. members



Posted By: mj1256 ()
Posted On: 05/27/2007 08:40 pm

Hey all

eek at 11:30 there were 355 visitors and I was the only member on the site

hey visitors, join the site and participate, it would be great to have you jump in and play

forums need active participants and this has been a great place since the day it started

and you will not get spammed or anything else at all


Posted By: SportsGuy (Staff)
Posted On: 05/28/2007 05:04 am

YEAH! ...what mj said... wink


Posted By: g1smd (Staff)
Posted On: 05/28/2007 04:50 pm

I always wonder how many of the "visitors" are actually search engine bots and spiders.


Posted By: mj1256 ()
Posted On: 05/28/2007 06:14 pm

good point, should'nt some of that show in your logs

even right now, 253 visitors and one member....me

i feel so alone


Posted By: Curt ()
Posted On: 05/28/2007 11:22 pm

Right now: 272 guests and 2 members

I'm thinking there are a bunch of junk spiders crawling these forums to scrape content. Those scrapers are getting badly out of control. I think one of the sites I am helping to manage is being hit by junk spiders scraping content because the difference between the number of page views reported by google adsense and the number that is reported via my logs is vastly different. Either that or 66% of the people viewing my site have JavaScript turned off, but I don't think it's that bad with people turning JS off. So, it must be junk spiders creating the extra traffic.

I will need to examine the log files more closely to see which IP's are visiting my site repeatedly and/or downloading lots of pages and block those junk spiders. JimWorld will likely need to do the same thing and block junk spiders too.


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