Viewing Figures

[blade]

Just an observation. The stats at the bottom of the page show how many people have viewed the board in the past 24 hours. Not so long we'd get a handful of members who logged on and around 20-30 'Guests' or anonymous viewers. Now we still get the handful logging on but the number of guests is now regularly 50-60, even 70-plus, in 24 hours.

With no news coming from the band lately, perhaps people (non-members) are looking here to try to find it? Whatever the reason, the traffic appears to be growing, which at least will please the advertisers!

[cyn]

looking around I've found this: support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=support&action=display&thread=62585&page=1

it's pretty old, so don't know if it is trustworthy. Anyway, hope it helps

[blade]

I don't think it's an unexplained 'spike' or anything like that - the numbers of viewers seems to be consistently higher than a few months ago.

[johnnyfromthewood]

Bots and crawlers could be the answer.

[chrome3d]

Yes I would also think that bots are behind the activity. I have seen this happening in other sites too. I have seen lot spam about hotels in a site with hotel on the title. The site has nothing to do with hotels but the spambots keep on spamming there.

What kind of spam this site gets? Usually the bots have a keyword and they search sites based on those words. I think that lullabies could be a keyword for babyproducts etc?