A few weeks ago, I wrote out a series of steps aimed at Fighting Bots Via Their Bad Requests. After watching my logs since then, I’ve noticed I made an incredibly stupid mistake. Bad bots do not follow 301 redirects! What does that mean?
If a regular browser encounters a web page, image, or document and [...]
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Using 301 vs. RewriteRule
Fighting Bots Via Their Bad Requests
Last week I started looking through my “page not found” (404) errors. It’s been interesting to say the least, with nearly 800 bad requests since then, most of which have been various attacks in trying to mislead people. I address most of these attacks or probes by re-routing the request to a robot block system [...]
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 5 – New Name
Currently most, and soon all, of the content at PlanetMike.com is related to technology and web design. So I took this opportunity to rename the site from “Michael Boyd Clark Journal/Blog” to “PlanetMike’s Technology Journal.” I am now adding new GoogleAlerts to monitor for the new name appearing in splogs (already found two!). I also [...]
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 4 – Copying the Database and Redirecting
Ok, I’ve moved a whole bunch of posts from PlanetMike.com over to my personal site, MichaelClark.name. While tedious, it was a pretty straightforward process.
Install WordPress on your new domain. Make sure it is the same version as the one on the old domain!
Copy the active theme to the new site’s theme directory. This should [...]
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 3 – Moving Content Between Domains
I’ve made a good start on splitting out personal stuff from PlanetMike.com, and moving it to MichaelClark.name. Jokes, photo galleries, and a handful of categories from WordPress have been moved. I’m moving a few more categories today, then I’ll share some of the lessons I’ve learned. Hopefully you won’t see too many problems on any [...]
Usage Statistics for PlanetMike.com: 2007
Summary by Month
Month
Daily Avg
Monthly Totals
Hits
Files
Pages
Visits
Sites
KBytes
Visits
Pages
Files
Hits
Dec 2007
15,151
13,329
8,748
2,681
42,654
7,180,572
83,124
271,191
413,207
469,697
Nov 2007
15,551
13,817
8,359
2,690
43,339
7,285,245
80,720
250,796
414,536
466,559
Oct 2007
14,355
12,382
7,932
2,829
41,912
5,712,332
87,721
245,918
383,861
445,030
Sep 2007
16,362
14,760
8,595
3,121
44,531
6,048,530
93,651
257,851
442,803
490,879
Aug 2007
19,132
17,161
9,987
3,957
53,589
9,012,449
122,670
309,605
532,000
593,098
Jul 2007
19,288
16,980
10,382
4,510
54,278
7,551,001
139,820
321,848
526,400
597,931
Jun 2007
19,756
17,743
10,586
4,326
55,907
5,610,407
129,796
317,585
532,290
592,688
May 2007
19,309
17,420
10,541
3,538
51,775
5,939,830
109,689
326,784
540,050
598,607
Apr 2007
23,801
21,295
11,800
3,880
62,231
7,530,408
116,417
354,002
638,869
714,044
Mar 2007
18,459
15,847
10,354
3,159
46,489
6,788,780
97,932
320,974
491,286
572,233
Feb 2007
20,256
17,948
9,690
3,415
57,104
6,743,685
95,634
271,332
502,559
567,168
Jan 2007
21,433
18,710
11,511
2,954
46,985
6,808,148
91,595
356,869
580,011
664,446
Totals
82,211,387
1,248,769
3,604,755
5,997,872
6,772,380
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 2 – Where will it go?
I’ve said the personal posts and content from PlanetMike.com will be moved to another site. What site would that be? I’m thinking now it will be MichaelClark.name. I also have registered both MichaelClark.org and MichaelClark.net, but .name will be my “official” personal site.
If you’d like to get a glimpse as to how I’ll be doing [...]
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 1 – What do I currently have?
So the first thing to do is figure out exactly what content I have to work with. For the WordPress portion of the site, that’s simple. I installed the Dagon Design Sitemap Plugin (warning – lots of spammy comments, so that site may not be managed any longer) and created a sitemap of the blog [...]
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Introduction
For years I’ve been using PlanetMike.com as my primary web site, and I post everything on it. The site started as a bunch of static web pages, then used (and still does in many places) server side includes. I’ve posted photos, jokes, other miscellaneous information. Then I started blogging, using Bloxsom, and then switched [...]
Traffic Report Updated
Last night I ran the webalizer traffic report for this site. I was thinking that traffic had slowed down since I last ran the report in early February. I was basically right, with about 10% fewer pages per month viewed from February to October. But I’m still very pleased with the numbers. I haven’t done [...]
