My traffic lately has been incredible!  I I was trying to perform a more inclusive statistic report to find out exactly what's been going on, but my host's reporting server goes down each time I try to select date ranges.  Not just errors, DOWN...

My traffic has really increased recently.  A google guru friend of mine explained that Google keeps you in a sand box for while.  They want to make sure websites are consistent and valid so they won't let someone shoot straight to the top without some time in the mud pit.  That way, if someone is really trying to get ranked, they probably will just hurt themselves by making too many silly changes and spamming techniques.  In other words, make a real site. 

So, it appears they love blogs!   When I say "they", I mean spiders.  Its fresh content appended to the old content.  Its information.  Its text based.  Makes sense, doesn't it?  Anyway, I recently started getting alot of traffic.  I haven't been able to determine exactly how much, but it might be enough to cost me money.  I thought I would pre-eptively experiment with some google ads.  Please forgive me if they are obtrusive, and please tell me.  All I want to do is pay hosting fees for this weblog.  If my traffic increases enough to make hosting unaffordable, then I'd imagine a few ads would be enough to help

Unfortunately, I think there is some strong possibility that the majority of my traffic is spiders being aggressive.  I'm getting lot's of similar queries from Google.  Is that someone looking for a Sountracs Topaz Mixing board or is that a robot trying to piggyback off of Google's success?  Are people terribly frustrated, trying to trap the enter key in asp.net or has Google directed no one but other crawlers my way?  Perhaps its an old p III university machine in a back closet that someone forgot about and has been running Avida on way too long

I'm not sure...  anyway, here's some google for you

p.s. hint, I said 'Google' an awful lot in this post. I wonder what would happen if I said, "Music, Progamming, Blogging, Blogs about Programming, blogs about Music, I like music. Music is my favorite thing. Programming is my second after music. I like free music and good music and good programmers."

Stupid robots.