Just an in-between painting update. Currently waiting for some deliveries to finish a commission and get full into another. Ran across a fun Game of Thrones video... not to fear: no spoilers, it's just silly fun.
See below at the end.
Latest gripe about Blogger...
No, not that my threaded comments still refuse to work, even though I have rewritten the code just like the guides say.
No, not that Blogger ignores questions and pleas for help on such issues... a main reason I won't run my business website by a blogger blog, since there are always problems that arise and there is no help.
Get what you pay for I guess.
No, this time it is with phantom traffic.
Not the stupid fake traffic bot sites that visit, hoping I'll be dumb enough to click on them.
This is mysterious and completely pointless as far as I can see.
The last few weeks I've been getting sudden spikes of traffic that do not show up in the source list, so I don't know who or where it is from and therefore it really is pointless if it's just a redirector bot.
But I find it annoying because it gives a false impression of the real visits.
I can expect, on average, about 300-350 real visits a day when I don't have a new post, another 150-200 on top of that when I have a new post, and maybe 600-700 if I promote and link from a minis forum site or two.
But the traffic I'm getting is obviously falsely inflated. Check this out:
Really... over 1,000 visits in the day when I haven't put up a new post? No.
Look at those two spikes of 26 visits each. A sudden rush of 26 visits in & out in a moment.
But no indication of a traffic source and not coming to a particular post, just the blog in general.
About 1/3 to half the traffic is these fake spikes, depending how many attack, it can vary and it isn't consistent when it happens.
It doesn't seem to do any harm, just annoying since I find it interesting to see how many visits I get.
Which I can't do when I can't trust the numbers.
Whoever does this gets nothing out of it, since I have nothing to click on like an idiot.
Anyone else getting this kind of thing?
Moving on...
I've been experimenting with Twitter.
I resisted it for a long time, since I don't have any interest in what people had for lunch or what they think about Celebrity X. But a friend kept emailing me twitters of Simpsons Quote of the Day and other amusing things, and there is some miniatures activity on it, so I bit and will post on it now and then.
Sometimes I have small minis progress that doesn't seem to warrant an entire blog post, so i've found that worthy of throwing up a work in progress picture now and then. These types of pictures might be rolled into a later Blog Post about the project in question, so you're unlikely to completely miss out, but if you want it faster it might be worth following.
If you do use Twitter and are interested my Twitter is: Laughing Ferret @Laughing_Ferret
Oh, who would have seen that coming right?
Most of what I've subscribed to are feeds of other things that interest me, like astronomy pictures, history pictures and animals, along with some minis of course. Some of the history pictures are interesting, but almost always very serious, and my MST3K sense of humor often finds me thinking irreverent comments, so just for fun I also made a new Twitter
Twistory Snaps @TwistorySnaps
I figure when I see these historical pictures and these ideas come out I'll have a place to throw them and not be tempted to clutter the blog with short nonsense.. saving the space for extended nonsense as it should be.
If I get followers and it's fun I'll keep at it, we'll see.
And the most fun:
Game of Thrones by bad lip reading.
Enjoy!
See below at the end.
Latest gripe about Blogger...
No, not that my threaded comments still refuse to work, even though I have rewritten the code just like the guides say.
No, not that Blogger ignores questions and pleas for help on such issues... a main reason I won't run my business website by a blogger blog, since there are always problems that arise and there is no help.
Get what you pay for I guess.
No, this time it is with phantom traffic.
Not the stupid fake traffic bot sites that visit, hoping I'll be dumb enough to click on them.
This is mysterious and completely pointless as far as I can see.
The last few weeks I've been getting sudden spikes of traffic that do not show up in the source list, so I don't know who or where it is from and therefore it really is pointless if it's just a redirector bot.
But I find it annoying because it gives a false impression of the real visits.
I can expect, on average, about 300-350 real visits a day when I don't have a new post, another 150-200 on top of that when I have a new post, and maybe 600-700 if I promote and link from a minis forum site or two.
But the traffic I'm getting is obviously falsely inflated. Check this out:
Look at those two spikes of 26 visits each. A sudden rush of 26 visits in & out in a moment.
But no indication of a traffic source and not coming to a particular post, just the blog in general.
About 1/3 to half the traffic is these fake spikes, depending how many attack, it can vary and it isn't consistent when it happens.
It doesn't seem to do any harm, just annoying since I find it interesting to see how many visits I get.
Which I can't do when I can't trust the numbers.
Whoever does this gets nothing out of it, since I have nothing to click on like an idiot.
Anyone else getting this kind of thing?
Moving on...
I've been experimenting with Twitter.
I resisted it for a long time, since I don't have any interest in what people had for lunch or what they think about Celebrity X. But a friend kept emailing me twitters of Simpsons Quote of the Day and other amusing things, and there is some miniatures activity on it, so I bit and will post on it now and then.
Sometimes I have small minis progress that doesn't seem to warrant an entire blog post, so i've found that worthy of throwing up a work in progress picture now and then. These types of pictures might be rolled into a later Blog Post about the project in question, so you're unlikely to completely miss out, but if you want it faster it might be worth following.
If you do use Twitter and are interested my Twitter is: Laughing Ferret @Laughing_Ferret
Oh, who would have seen that coming right?
Most of what I've subscribed to are feeds of other things that interest me, like astronomy pictures, history pictures and animals, along with some minis of course. Some of the history pictures are interesting, but almost always very serious, and my MST3K sense of humor often finds me thinking irreverent comments, so just for fun I also made a new Twitter
Twistory Snaps @TwistorySnaps
I figure when I see these historical pictures and these ideas come out I'll have a place to throw them and not be tempted to clutter the blog with short nonsense.. saving the space for extended nonsense as it should be.
If I get followers and it's fun I'll keep at it, we'll see.
And the most fun:
Game of Thrones by bad lip reading.
Enjoy!