Yet another lesson in the law of unintended consequences, the malleability of statistics, and the stupidity of robots.
Courtesy of the Counterize II plugin for WordPress, I’ve been trying to analyze traffic charts like this for the past few months:
Could it be that, in addition to the lack of coherence embodying this site’s namesake, I’m also providing five times more value to my readers? Maybe MSN Live (1) is providing subtle commentary on the value of incoherence?
The truth, of course, is far less glamorous. The spiders crawling through my site are happening upon my photo gallery, housed by my barely-integrated Gallery2 pages and looking something like:
Goes to show what we learned as kids was in fact a lesson in life: repeat something often enough, and someone will pay attention.
Way to make use of context, spidey.
- incidentally, the MSN Live search spiders are by far the busiest in reindexing pages, which I take as a sign of either diligence or desperation (↩)