Well, Bummer
Learning is FUNdamental!
Today's lesson is that my Blogspot stats are probably lying liars that lie. Today I learned about Referral Spam, aka "traffic sources" that hit your page and cause false page hits. They waaants you to click them and... have malware installed, or something. So not as many folks are reading it as I'd thought, if any are at all. A rather {{sigh}} humbling experience.
There's another thing called Google Analytics that lets you point to your site and exclude those referral spam hits... I think. I've just set it up, and so far I'm reading zero hits for the entire blog. Needs warming up, I guess.
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Addendum:
In spite of excluding my own IP address, it's been logging all my visits when I edit posts. So I look like my own #1 fan. Thanks, Analytics!
Today's lesson is that my Blogspot stats are probably lying liars that lie. Today I learned about Referral Spam, aka "traffic sources" that hit your page and cause false page hits. They waaants you to click them and... have malware installed, or something. So not as many folks are reading it as I'd thought, if any are at all. A rather {{sigh}} humbling experience.
There's another thing called Google Analytics that lets you point to your site and exclude those referral spam hits... I think. I've just set it up, and so far I'm reading zero hits for the entire blog. Needs warming up, I guess.
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Addendum:
In spite of excluding my own IP address, it's been logging all my visits when I edit posts. So I look like my own #1 fan. Thanks, Analytics!