Internet Ranking

Not being certain how long it takes to achieve this, I thought that I would mention that, according to the Netcraft toolbar for Firefox 2, Amigans does not yet have a ranking (I'm not sure if we want to have one here or not).

The top ranking site is Google, of course (followed closely by Yahoo);
The top ranking tech site is Microsoft (followed by Symantec);
The top ranking news site is BBC (followed closely by Foxnews).

For my own part, my site is ranked in the low 2 millions, and blogsey (which just got a ranking apparently), is ranked in the low 5 millions?all of which just goes to show that some sites only get visited when they get updated (how else would I rank ahead of them? ).

Well My 3cag website must be high in the league. I'm always been hit by Porn Spammers. Sometimes up to 20 a day.

Not so bad now that I IP banned googlebot x5

Just get the druggie Spammers and occasional Porn spammers now.

3cag is in the low 4 millions.

I remember when I suddenly started getting over a thousand hits a day last March. There was nothing in the top URLs listing but search engines and bots (all going for the previous incarnation of blogsey, which no longer existed), so I did what I could to stem the tide of useless traffic. I even went to the extreme of setting my robots.txt file to "no bots". Once I did that, it was like someone pulled the Internet cord out of my virtual server. I left it that way for a month, then renamed the robots file to something else. The robots have been slowly coming back, but they rarely if ever try to get to the non-existant PHP-based blog, and I've been getting visits from people that want to see the photos, want to hear the Chats, etc. I also convinced my webhost to do something that has REALLY helped in keeping track of things. They now record a separate log file for each day. Not only does that drastically cut down the dross I need to slog through in checking for problems, it also helps me to gauge whether I've had an increase or decrease in traffic on a particular day, just by seeing the file size.

Just got notice of an update to Firefox2 (to 2.0.0.1) so I checked the ranking of the Update info page (mid 17 thousands).