100 spams in a day!

Yay! It's only 11PM and this blog has had 100 hits today alone! [Edit, by 12:00 we had 300 hits] For a blog that's only something like 23 hours old, that is a heck of a lot of hits. Unfortunately, these words will mostly fall on deaf ears for now as those views have come from spambots. These highly effective lines of code search the internet for fresh meat, and attack new blogs. One you've got one, don't expect it to go away, but do ignore it. These spambots hit your blog up with a ton of views in hopes that you will click on their URLs in the pageview stats. They can then do much more interesting things with your actual computer once you're on their page. This is part of the reason that you need to leave URLs that seem suspicious alone. These include very suspicious names like Vampirestat.com but also some not so fishy sounding ones like Kallery.net. For any bloggers like me, these things muck up your ability to even figure out if you've got an audience. Thankfully these things haven't found my email. 100 emails a day would be a new level of swamped. Now to be fair, some of these hits are generated by Robynn and myself in the course of editing, but given the number of hits that are created by a Mac, I'd wager that my editing isn't a major contributor.